The joy of running in the rain ... and how it is starting to wear thin

As fun as it is to splash along muddy trails, after months and months of it, I'm dreaming of drier ground

A soggy trail on Friday

It has been raining so much here recently that trail runs are like running through sodden bogs, icy water, slippy mud, taking detours to avoid rivers swollen so high your usual route is now a lake with trees sticking out of it. In some ways it’s fun. We get to splash, splosh, get drenched, and not care, with childlike abandon, rat…