robert678 wrote:
Well, if you want to be a good runner, you run. Sometimes the weather's nice, sometimes it isn't. Deal with it.
The only time you run inside is if it's dangerous outside (e.g. lots of black ice)
They generally don't train in the rain. 1. Because the roads turn into a mushy clay that is almost impossible to run on, and 2. As I was told when it was raining in Iten.. "if you couldn't take a hot shower after, would you run in the rain?"
It's usually pretty cool out when it rains, and most of the runners take showers with buckets and don't have hot watee.. so it's hard to warm up if you're out in the cold rain. And getting sick in a town with not a lot of doctors isn't good either.
It rains a lot, but it's like Florida.. rains each day for an hour or so, then stops. The mornings are usually fine. And yeah, you do have to run after it rains and the roads are a mess.. but that's just one of the many things that makes running in Kenya very hard. I ran during the rain on the one paved road through Iten and people looked at me like I was crazy, or lost. No one goes outside to run when it rains.