How wet could this wet pet get?

Dang that was wet! It poured as promised all night and into the morning of Marathon Monday in Hopkinton. The athletic fields used as 'athlete villages' were mud bogs, the lower field was almost unusable due to the depth of the puddles. But still the runners came by the busload, some 20,000 of them. (although the BAA states that 2000 numbers were not claimed before the race started, so some did stay home!)
They looked ridiculous, some wearing plastic bags on their shoes to keep them as dry as possible until race time. I saw a pair of women as I cheerily greeted the arriving buses, decked out in full makeup, like they were going out on the town, or to a fancy dinner. I suppose it's just for these (and other) women that they couldn't leave the house/hotel without it, but they stepped off the bus into rain showers and were about to trek 26.2 miles by foot into Boston, I'm not sure the fine morning makeup would last that long. As hard as I have strained to check the pictures from the race posted today, can't see them in the background. Bummer.

Other best question I was asked: "How far is the start from here"
"About 3/4 of a mile that way"
"You mean we gotta walk 3/4 of a mile to the start?"
"Yes, but remember, Boston is 27 miles that way from here"
Duh! You're here to run a friggin' marathon people !

Fun? Yep. Wet? Yep. Cold? Nah. Do it again? Yep.