Kristal and I met up to do our run this evening. We started the new program I blogged about earlier. It felt good to run an entire minute at a time (unlike the Mayo 5K where I had not worked up to a minute after 14 weeks of training). The run felt good, and as we were running, we were watching the dark clouds roll in. Kristal, the eternal planner, was trying to figure out where we would go in case of lightning and thunder. I was trying to ramp myself up for the very real possibility that we would soon be running in the rain. I had never done it before...part of me was terrified but the other part of me was getting pretty excited. Real runners run in the rain. I was about to prove myself as a runner. Not long after the dark clouds rolled in did it begin to rain. We were caught in two separate downpours. We were drenched. Our hair was stuck to our faces and our clothes weighed an additional ten pounds. It was cold and windy and the rain was dripping off our eyelashes, but it was the most liberating, awesome feeling ever. It felt amazing! I was so stoked about running in the rain that I had to come home, take a shower, and blog about it tonight! It felt so good being out there in the rain. You should definitely try it sometime.
Being out there made me feel so joyful, and instantly I thought of this song:
So, pretty much substitute every time he says "singing" for "running" and that is pretty much how I felt. I didn't look nearly as graceful running in the rain as Gene Kelly does dancing in the rain. In fact, when it was over you could probably use the words "hot mess" to describe what I looked like, but I didn't care. I loved how freeing it was. I loved it so much that I had Kristal take a picture so I could post it on here. This is what I look like after I run in the rain:
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