Is this summer worse than last year's?

The forecast suggests that it's going to rain every day this week. That's a lot of running. I'm trying to shake off a cold at the moment and I'm not sure that running 10 miles a day is going to help! If I had my car, I'd be driving it; as it is, I'm on my second day of running in a row and it's only Tuesday.

This morning I got to work 1 minute faster than previous efforts. This can largely be put down to the fact that (you know what's coming here) there was a runner in front of me who I inevitably had to overtake. He was trying to overtake me back but I not-so-subtley ran faster and faster to prevent him from passing! After about a mile and a half he turned off from my route and I was allowed to slow down! Phew! (my time would have been much more than a minute faster if I hadn't had to slow down so much from my effort!)