Rest,Rain and running

Rest day, wonderful rest day. Ahhh. Last night I had a long relaxing soak in a warm Epsom bath with a nice glass of red wine. My muscles weren't very sore this week, but it's starting to become my Thursday night ritual that I look foward to. It's a nice reward for getting my ass up before dawn 4 days a week. This morning the alarm didn't go off until 6:10 and I enjoyed every blissful moment of sleeping in. Again, a nice reward for training all week. Tomorrow I have a 17 mile run scheduled. The doppler radar has rain scheduled. Delkus of news 8 has tweeted a 100% chance of rain tomorrow. Weather channel.com says 80 % chance of rain. This forecast initially led me into a little bit of a panic, because I really don't want to miss my long run this week, and I don't see how I would fit it in on any other day. By my calculations, it's going to take me a little over 3 hours to run this distance, which means if I get rained out tomorrow I would have to get up at 3 am on a workday to get it done. I just don't see that as an option. Sunday the captain has a race, so no Sunday morning option for me to reschedule. So I started researching running in the rain, and was surprised to find that many runners prefer to run in the rain (without lightening or Thunderstorms of course). I got to thinking about it, and I remember that early on in the summer I really loved running through sprinklers when people would water the lawn, so what would be so bad about raindrops if they would keep me cool on my run ? Plus the rain will keep the temperature down, and it might be the coolest weather I've seen since about March. So now I'm actually looking forward to a little rainy running. Which just might chase the rainclouds away.