The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down in Rushing Rising Rivlets
Extreme weather - there's nothing like it for bringing the show offs out of the woodwork. If you're part of an online running community, your newsfeed will feature some smug posts from people informing you how they smashed their morning run in torrential rain or an Arctic blizzard and how totally amazing it was. Before you know it, everybody else seems to be doing it, just to prove that they are 'real' runners, not the sort who worry about wet feet or wimp out on the treadmill. There are many things about the running community that I truly love. On the whole, it's a nice, supportive community to be part of. One of the things I don't like though is there's a fair bit of keeping up with the Joneses. As much as we all tell each other that we're on our own journey, only competing against ourselves, that it's about finishing lines, not finishing times etc, etc,, we just can't help comparing ourselves to others. We also like to feel like one o...