Do any of you actually run in the rain?

Irish reader here, i'd be a lard ass if i didnt run when it rains. Heavy rain though leads to sore nips in the shower afterwards.

+1

Well as my namesake implies, I would miss 8 months of training if I avoided the rain. However, the rains are rarely that heavy here. Also, to make up for it, Seattle does have mostly dry but not too hot summers (until this morning we had 40 days in a row with no precip).

I consider this to be an almost perfect distance runner climate. Some places on the Cali coast are probably better. But I would take Seattle's climate in a heartbeat over the SE part of our country where it's way too hot and humid. I think it takes much more guts to run distance in that sort of weather than in the rain.

The constant grey skies in the winter can get a bit depressing though by March My worst year was when I spent a late spring and summer in England. It rained almost everyday. So I basically went almost a year with lots of rain and little sun.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Corsair wrote:

Depends on the temperature. If it's 33 degrees and raining it's treadmill time. Summertime rains are refreshing.

That's not even freezing, pathetic

That's the whole point, dork. If it was 0s, 10s, or 20s it would be snowing which is no problem whatsoever. 30s and rainy is 100 times worse than 0 and snowy.

I do run in the rain, but only when it rains.

Haven't read the entire thread but this video (horese head guy) is mandatory for such a thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSQuxh3FYc

I adhere to a precipitation only traning shedule. I also receive Swedish massage and visit the sauna. I have a membership at gyms.

Nothing better - see "24 in the Rain" chapter 29 once a runner

I usually run on the treadmill when it becomes a bit nippy, so rain is extreme weather for me, therefore i run on the treadmill most of the time.

observer_of_things wrote:

HRE wrote:

Ron Hill wrote about a guy called Derek Graham who was an internationalist for the UK in the 60s. He said that Graham refused to run in the rain. He did a lot of his training on a golf course and if rain started during a run he'd head for a maintenance shed and stand in it until the rain stopped.

Personally, I'm okay with rain once I manage to get myself out the door except that it gets onto my glasses and makes it hard to see. That once lead to a very nasty incident involving a fence and my crotch during a rainy cross country race many years ago.

An internationalist? What sort of internationalistic things did he do?

The usual sorts of things that people in our sport who that word applies to do.

Fool in the rain...

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless

When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey

The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless

I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah

Light of the love that I found...

Great Brit wrote:

I live in England. If I didn't, I'd never run.

I'm on the Oregon coast, so same here. Regular soakings this winter particularly.

Getting caught in a cloudburst is hilarious!

That's insane to run in the rain in Florida outside of winter and early spring, because there are frequent deadly lightning strikes, in the parlance of the National Weather Service, in most rain storms seven months a year.

True that 35 and rain sucks. That is probably my least favorite running weather. But if there is no thunderstorm, of course you run when you need to.

if i was actually healthy for once, there are three types of weather that make me think twice about running outside:

Rain, yes.

Lightening, no.

I try to avoid runnjng in heavy lightning, and when I do, I run with taller guys, which is everyone since I'm 5' 8". I'm good!