running in the rain

As i sit here gorging myself on humus and pita, its currently raining outside.  in the three weeks ive been here, its the first time ive seen rain.

this morning noa and i went running again.  we had taken four days off due to both being ill, and we were finally feeling better.  it was overcast out, and a little chilly getting started.  i am in shorts and a running shirt only though.  apparently on overcast days forecasting rain, the locals dont exercise.  i think we maybe saw 10 other runners out?

anyways, we get to the beach, and lo and behold, it starts raining on me.  Now, i would squarely put me in the casual runner category, and i would never even contemplate running in the rain in vancouver.  only the hard core runners (in my mind) do so.  So when it started raining on me, i was like, what the fudge.  i stopped, told noa this is crazy, we are gonna catch a cold or something again, and what are we doing out here.  She being firmly planted in the hardcore runner side, said, im continuing.

“Fine!” i yell at her back.  and continue on.  what misery.  what agony.  well the rain only lasted like, 4 min.  and it wasn’t actually so bad.  then the sun came out, and i was warm again.  seriously, what is with this wannabe rain.  im going to have to re-cailbrate my rain meter or something.  its going to take some getting used too.

while writing this it has stopped raining outside.  so weird.