This is a question that's been bugging me for some time now. I think that one would run slower and have a compromised run if they did it in the rain.
This is a question that's been bugging me for some time now. I think that one would run slower and have a compromised run if they did it in the rain.
I got sick after running in the rain once. Don't do it!
We have a meet this Sunday and it rained last night.
Only 2 of use were at practice and we trained hard.
The rain was off and on.
That's 1 beauty session we got in that our competition did not as they sat home playing xbox eating doritos.
So yah, please don't run in the rain and tell your team not to either. Especially your XC team.
And real runners don't run hills either because you run slower uphill and have a compromised run.
Star wrote:
And real runners don't run hills either because you run slower uphill and have a compromised run.
Don't run when it's really hot out either. You'll run slower and have a compromised run.
Bruce LeeRoy wrote:
We have a meet this Sunday and it rained last night.
Only 2 of use were at practice and we trained hard.
The rain was off and on.
That's 1 beauty session we got in that our competition did not as they sat home playing xbox eating doritos.
So yah, please don't run in the rain and tell your team not to either. Especially your XC team.
I am with Bruce, seriously, especially if you are in the 5A division feel free to take off a month, or heck, a month off before the state meet. I mean its not like I will be training hard, if you don't want to train in bad conditions feel free to go and take a nice break.
old wive's tale wrote:
This is a question that's been bugging me for some time now. I think that one would run slower and have a compromised run if they did it in the rain.
Are you my wife? You sound like her and for some reason, thinking about some old wive's tail made me think of her.
Was her tail furry or curly?
Some do. There were only 301 finishers at Boston this year because people were afraid of catching colds.
It's funny you mention it, because I hate running hills and I like to pick flat routes. I think running up hills is bad because it compromises my self esteem ahead of a race, as my pace slows 15-30 seconds per mile with hills. I like to keep my confidence high on the flatter routes.
I'm thinking I'll skip my run today because I don't want to get sick.
I agree to a point. When I was in college the day after indoor ended ALL workouts were outside. If the schedule called for 12x400 @ 63 you were doing the workout outside no matter what. 5 inches of snow on the track you were running. Sleet, hail, downpour? You were doing that workout even if it ended up being 10x400 @ 66. The only thing we didn't run in was bad lightning. Even then, I remember doing tempo runs with scary lightning all around.
I actually like racing in rain. Downpour? No, but average rain I don't mind. But when you've done workout after workout in nothing but bad weather, come race day you're thinking "I've got to run in this again?" The more you run in bad weather the more you learn to hate it. But it is nice to get out once in a while and run in uncomfortable weather.
When I run in the rain I feel like a stone-cold badass, and I know the pedestrians, huddled as they are beneath their umbrellas, feel similarly as they see me bound past them. With my head down I charge through the storm, grimacing for effect, hoping against hope that those around me notice the rippling musculature of my legs, glistening and wet. I am runner; hear me roar.
Rain is my favorite weather to run in. I always do it.
in DC, in the summer, running outside I'm just as soaked as if it were raining. at least the rain is somewhat refreshing.
5/10 on the troll. Rain runs rule.
I love it when it is absolutely pi$$ing rain @ the office and I head to the elevator in my running gear. The people look at me like I'm crazy. Some even say, "Are you gonna run? You know it pouring out there?" They have no idea how great rain runs are (or running at all for most of them) as they continue on their long journey to nowhere.
I was running once in a downpour. My previous time doing laundry I must have used too much soap and it did not all rinse out. As I was running through the local college campus, I looked down and bubbles were streaming down my legs as the excess detergent was being rinsed from my shirt and shorts.
I just run with an umbrella when it rains
Everyone loves to run in the rain until it's 6xmile @ 4:40 with 2:00 rest.
Just running in the rain is no big deal. It's when it's hard workout after hard workout that it begins to really suck. Add in a little wind and some sleet to a track workout and suddenly you're not as big a hero as you thought.
fdsaasdfad wrote:
I just run with an umbrella when it rains
No joke, I've seen someone doing this in Ashburn, VA on Claiborne parkway.
Everybody knows you should never run unless the temperature is well above the dew point. Run in the rain and your sweat won't evaporate and you'll overheat, collapse and die.
Also never run in Arizona. I tried that once. It'll dry you up like a dried up toadstool, for real.