last home group - 4.35miles, 7km, pouring rain

walked this evening to the last home group of the summer, in the pouring rain, to the area of town i've always known as 'thornheights'.

• 4.35miles (7km), 870 calories burned (i don't care about calories, but it's another interesting stat!). and i went a little further than planned (had planned 3.5miles) cuz i made good time to the top of the hill, and didn't want to show up on the doorstep *too* early!.....
• 0.7miles of it was uphill, up 217feet in altitude (anyone know how to work out an average gradient from that there data? lol).
• took me about 1 hour and 45 minutes, but i'm unsure, because i spent about 10-20 minutes in wally world picking out a poncho.

got damp thru, i think more from sweat and the poncho's lack of 'breathing' than the rain itself - but i didn't by any means get 'soaked'!!! ('that'll do, poncho, that'll do'...)

but.... the dummy i am with money, and decision making.... i couldn't decide what rain gear to get, so i got two - a poncho and a rain-suit. (granted they were both pretty cheap.) ...*plus* a cheap emergency poncho to give away if i saw someone getting soaked.... so, being charitable, i guess one could argue that it merits only about 2/3's of a *doh*. :P

i felt like walking home, too, but i thought a 10pm-midnight solo walk would be pushing it! :P

(data via gmap-pedometer)