The Sound of Rain

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Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 1600, 1/1000 sec., @400mm, f5.6) A runner sends up a giant splash as she races across the opening flat.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 1600, 1/1000 sec., @400mm, f5.6) The 2A girls race across the opening flat through standing water.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 2500, 1/800 sec., @400mm, f5.6) Runners from Glacier Peak race through the rain and water.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 2500, 1/1600 sec., @285mm, f5.6) The 4A boys streak past a line of umbrellas as the rain picks up again.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 2500, 1/1250 sec., @365mm, f5.6) The 4A boys head past more umbrellas in the middle of the course.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 2500, 1/1250 sec., @400mm, f5.6) Even Herald writer Mike Cane picked up an umbrella to watch the last part of the boys 4A race.
Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald

(Canon EOS-1D Mark III, EF 100-400mm f3.5-5.6, ISO 2500, 1/1250 sec., @170mm, f5.6) Cascade's Dylan Hopper grimaces as he tries to out gain Jackson's Blake Nelson for the 4A boys win. Hopper would finish second.

Jennifer Buchanan/Staff Photographer

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | 5:42 pm

It was wet Saturday afternoon in Langley, very wet. The ground was a sodden mess and just got messier as hundreds of feet pounded it into submission. Somehow I had tricked myself into wearing cotton pants and not nearly enough layers that morning. My excuse was it was sunny at my house when I left. I paid for it later as the cotton wicked the water from my shoes up towards my knees. It was not fun. I don't know how the runners felt about the conditions, but seeing as there were no course records broken, I can only imagine that the wet and sloppy course made for slow running.