Taking Leave of My Senses

This weekend I have an all consuming meeting, out of town, for work. No joke, the work day begins at 6:00am Saturday and runs through dinner, 6:45am Sunday through 1:00pm or so, then drive home.

But I have a long run! What am I going to do? When will I fit this in?

Apparently I am going to meet one of my running partners at 5:00am tomorrow morning before this all kicks off (yes, 5:00am, yes, I will be setting my alarm for 4:30am) to run 8.5 miles. Oh but that's not at all. It is supposed to rain. Run 8.5 miles in the rain at 5:00am then get in the car and drive 2 hours? What is wrong with me???

The one concession to good sense we have made is that we are going to meet at the gym. If the weather is really crummy we will do a circuit on the treadmill. But I am NOT obsessed enough to be able to bang out 8.5 on the treadmill. I don't think....