I'm a morning runner, and if I miss my early morning time I find it difficult to go out later in the day. I woke up this morning bright-eyed and bushy-imaginary-tailed, all ready to jump out of bed into my running clothes and head out of the door.
Unfortunately it was pouring with rain - straight in my window, so I'd been having a quick pre-run rinse in my sleep. And yes, I closed the window, crawled into a dry sleeping bag and went back to sleep.
How do you manage to make yourselves go out when the weather is disgusting? I need some way to motivate myself to go out - telling myself it's not running in the rain but doing the drowned rat dance just isn't working!
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Skin is waterproof!
Most people like having a shower.
Running in the rain means you get a shower for free!
I'm with Lauren on this one - in fact I'll go with EMarkM - I had a fantastic run in the rain this morning - it made my run special. Even more so when about 400m from home a big lorry drove through a puddle and a wall of water covered me!
Running in the rain is no problem at all so long as you can keep warm (which you do if you keep running). The main problem with rain is if you get caught in it and have to wear soaking wet clothes the rest of the day, which doesn't happen when you are on a run.
Like the other posters, I have no problem running in the rain.
Sometimes I actually prefer it. I remember a run through my local woods at the end of last year in a light drizzle that was absolutely magical as it just brought the place alive.
I can still (almost) smell the pine, remember the stillness and just the noise of the birds singing. Everything just seemed more intense, maybe because there were no other noise as the drum of traffic was deadened by the rain and there was nobody else around. Fantastic.
My run tonight was in reasonably heavy rain, but I was warm in my waterproof top and my baseball cap kept the rain of my face. It was my first run after about a month due to injury, and I loved it. I'd been determined that nothing was going to stop me running tonight.
I dont like running in the rain.
I dont like running in heat, or cold or wind or snow.
Or the dark
I like running in a bright, warm, windless environment over a resonable flat surface.
I dont like running on treadmills and gyms are evil.
So what does little me do?
I just go outside and run, where it may be raining or hot or cold or snowing.
And dark.
See what Im saying here?
Good
Now off you trot and close that window there's a draft
If you are training for an event / race then the weather dosn't matter the training does.No matter the weather keeping to my training plan will motivate me.
Must admit starting a LSR in the pouring rain can be a bit miserable at times...but great when you get back
The rain is cooling, and once you're wet, you're wet.......
Running in the rain is awesome.
A light shower is best but when it's pouring you feel like a serious runner as you're getting out there no matter what
Just make sure you're wearing decent running kit as cotton gets really heavy and (literally) becomes a drag
I absolutely love running in the rain. My most enjoyable half-marathon ever was run in teeming rain, splashing through the puddles, rain running down my face and off my nose, hair and clothes soaked - awesome! Just loved it.
Where I live there's a saying - "there's no such thing as bad weather, only wrong choice of clothing". Says it all really.
Writing this I just realised that I’m perhaps not the best person to give you advice. Apparently I enjoy the colder/wetter end of the weatherscale. Odd isn't it that you don't know something about yourself until you start writing a reply to someone else?
Result? I felt absolutely elated by the end, having put in a massive session and disregarding the absolutely soaking wet clothes. Basically felt like He Man during the run and loved it.
As my trainer kept on saying, there is no wrong weather, just wrong gear!
I have to say, I found the rain very refreshing, I even stretched out my hands at one point to fully "soak in" the experience. The hail on my face was not too nice but made me run harder, as if fighting the elements.
Priceless experience! Would I do it again? If I can avoid it, probably not, but if it happens, it will not panic me any more. And sometimes it is just nice to do something completely crazy!
You don't feel the rain on your head, the peak keeps the rain off your face.
Can't feel the rain = no rain
Easy running - no jacket required