My mom works in Marin County, which is just north of San Francisco. She just called from work to tell me that there is a major storm hitting the Bay Area right now. Apparently there are gusting winds and many inches of rain and people crashing their cars right and left. It sounds like a severe enough storm that it could have been very crippling on Race Day if it had come a few days from now! However, it looks like things will have calmed down by the weekend: still a chance of rain, but no major storming forecasted. Thank goodness! We could handle running in some regular old rain, methinks. We've done it before.