All Wet

Last night as I drove towards Tuesday night volleyball I saw very ominous sky in that direction. I thought there was a very good chance that we would get rained out. Well I was right about the rain part, it was the outcome I didn’t expect.

About 10 minutes into playing the light rain started. Nobody else suggested stopping so I was good to continue, it isn’t like me to throw in the white flag so we continued to play. The light rain became hard rain. At several points the hard rain became wind blown nearly horizontal rain which was utterly ridiculous to play in, but we did. My shirt became water logged quickly so I tossed it on the bleachers. The wet sand encased my body, the ball and anything else it touched. It didn’t matter how hard it rained, we were all soaked already so we just played.

As you can imagine the conditions made for some very sloppy play. At times it was hard to even see as the rain was pelting our eyes. Towards the end of the session I felt like I lost my ability to focus as I was making a ton of errors on balls I would normally be able to handle. I was quite glad when the last game was played. I can only remember playing in similar conditions twice before, once at a Pottstown Rumble and once at a beach tournament in Ocean City Maryland. This ranked right up there. The shower last night afterwards felt more appreciated than normal.