Running or walking in the rain?

ive seen this once in discovery channel. an experiment made by the myth busters. i am not on a copy paste yet but i will try to locate the site for you.... wait yeah after 10 minutes i found it. hope this is what you need. i will transfer it manually. http://www.tvsquad.com2005/10/17/mythbusters-mythbusters-revisited/ but for me i love the rain. i always stroll on a bike when i feel like the rain will pour. ive been doing that since then i only go home if the rain has thunder and lighting...har har har thats not fun

haha.. good question. You made me think about it. Well based on my opinion, i'd say you'll get soaking wet when you walk in the rain compared to running. By running, you will reach shelter much faster than walking and because of that, you save yourself from getting soaked in the rain. But by walking, because you walk, you'll definately get soaking wet as you are exposed to the rain longer than running.. i hope i dont get anyone confused here.. haha.. this is my opinion on this. Thanks for a good question!

I seen this tested out on the Mythbusters. Walking in the rain you get wetter.

rotflmao, Coffeeshot I have no earthly clue. Not even any logic to draw from here... Ummm I do like walking in the summer rain :)) rotflmao sorry hon for laughing but I just can not with any reasonable logic answer this one.

Apparently, you get just as wet, but maybe wetter on the front if you run and wet all over by walking. Heck, I remember walking thru a driving rain storm in college with an umbrella and the rain was coming down so hard it was misting thru the fabric of the umbrella. I was damp when I got to my class! Thankfully it had pretty much stopped by the time class was out. Now, could this class have been in a nice dry room - no - while we didn't go out, the class was a golf class and held in the shed they stored the clubs for the college....

Hello my new friend. I searched your discussions to find this very interesting one. It made me start to think about this question and I am starting to get confused for this. But still I think that we could get wetter from running in the rain than we walk in the rain. Thank you for being my friend, coffeeshot.

It looks like you may get more wet because you would run through alot more falling rain and you would also be stomping on the rain that is already fallen on the ground too.

Hello there, I am afraid I have no passionate on walking or running in the rain. However, yesterday morning I was unable to avoid such. Since it looked like a sunny morning, my hubby suggested us all went out for a jogging. On the way, it suddenly rained heavily that we didn’t have very much choice. We just carried on our jogging; walking and running home. It was fun though.

I'm convinced that if you run through the rain, you can avoid more raindrops. But I don't have any science or logic to back up this idea. :)

we get more wet while walking in the rain

I have no idea. I hate getting wet both ways! My husband swears that you get less wet if you walk though. He says that he has tried it both ways multiple times and gets more wet if he runs. No matter what he tells me; I still run!

Well I only do one thing in the rain and that is get extremely wet!! I walk, so I get soaked, and it is even worse if the kids are with me as they are not yet the fastest of walkers!! I am not likely to be seen running in it so I can not give you the answer to that one!!

Not to certain about whether you get wetter or not unless you slip from running wearing improper shoes..then of course you will.. cause you'll be on the ground soaked LOL...I've done this so i should know!

i recommend you to wlak because if you run you ca felt down and have injures in your body. Have a nica day ! Martín !

whether you walk or run under the rain, you still get wet but the longer you are under the rain the more you get wet. we run to get out of the rain as fast as we can. this has been done and tested in mythbusters.

Well Logically speaking I would think that you would get more wet running in the rain. When you run you're not only going to be hit from the splashes of rain above you, but from the splashes of rain below you. Think about the puddles that you may run through. Think about driving a car through the rain and how, the faster the car is going...the more rain splashes up. So my guess is running would make you wetter. You can also search this and find a gazillion answers. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=get+more+wet+walking+in+the+raining+or+running+in+rain&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8