{"id":626,"date":"2011-07-11T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/2011\/07\/running-in-the-rain\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:14:40","slug":"running-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/2011\/07\/running-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Running in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>\u201cSunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.\u201d<br \/><\/i><br \/>-John Ruskin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We ran through the sweltering summer heat awaiting the rain. Come June.  In anticipation of the monsoon we pushed the mileage up.  After a teaser on the first weekend, the rain completely disappeared.  As cloudy days passed we sweated it out with  each kilometer. Still no rain. <\/p>\n<p>Then came my trial by fire. Exams for both my kids! I was out of the main action for 10 days. <\/p>\n<p>On a dark and cloudy Friday morning I hit the road. It startrd drizzling as I started. What a glorious feeling it was. So refreshing. To run with raindrops fallin&#8217; on my head! From then on&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;lovely music played in me. And I smiled. At all and none. Was just happy to be out there amidst the changing urban landscape in the rain. Past the buildings, the greens and beach. I reached marine drive. . The rain continued with varying intensity and the distance melted into sheer pleasure. My feet flew over the wet road, as I sprinted to  finish with the wind blowing, into the greyness. I met the rest of the gang returning from their 10-12k runs. The run was a breeze. It was unanimously decided that it was one of the best runs we\u2019ve had in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xTBPm9_vxGw\/ThqrQOHcmxI\/AAAAAAAAC-g\/38SEMex0SRc\/s1600\/marine_drive.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"179\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xTBPm9_vxGw\/ThqrQOHcmxI\/AAAAAAAAC-g\/38SEMex0SRc\/s320\/marine_drive.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Come sunday. Time for a long run. <br \/>Our target of 19km was easily achieved as we got light sporadic rain. Post run chit chat was on and there came a shower. All of us were drenched. It was an exhilarating feeling to have the raindrops beating down on us. The massage was brief but the downpour was heavy and accompanied by gusty winds. We felt a chill which created a surreal feel. The bleak urban landscape &#8230;.the adrenaline rush&#8230;&#8230;the satisfied smile&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A quote I once read, \u201cRunner\u2019s don\u2019t get rained out, they get rained on.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-first-marathon-2012-2013","category-rain","category-run"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lWKK-a6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}