Splash and Dash

Hopefully everyone, at least once in their life, has run and played in the rain. When you're young more than likely you were told not to. You would get a cold or ruin your clothes. Now I don't doubt that some of us did not get a cold or ruin many clothes but none of us died. At least none of us reading (or writing this).

For the first time since early in 2008 I ran in a full on downpour today. It was wonderful. It makes you feel like you're breaking a rule, even if you're the one setting the rules now. Its quite liberating and at many points sensory overload. The rain ins much louder falling through and on tree cover. It also somehow unleashes a lot of forests fragrances you really don't pick up on during the bone dry times.

Its really, really, really fun. I also think I run a bit faster through puddles an mud.