Rainy San Diego

San Diego is known for its beaches and mild, year-long climate. More specifically, it's always sunny and 70 in San Diego (or as close to "always" as you can get). However recently, like several National Parks Services twitter accounts, San Diego has gone rogue. For the last three weeks, it has been raining constantly. Wednesday was our first day of sun in eons.

These pluvial and windy days have uprooted trees, caused power outages, yellowed cacti, and flooded our fields at the OTC. For a while, we were able to slosh around on the fields, but we have missed one day of training (unheard of) and have had to train a couple of sessions on the field hockey field.

On one particular day, we played rugby games on the field. This turned into a combination of mud-wrestling, dirty slip-n-slide and a little rugby. Most of us wound up looking like I do in the picture to the left.

This is the first day we found our field under a bit of water. On the sidelines, our bleachers were in a pool of water, and our workout tires were either underwater or just peeking above the surface. None of this deterred us from our work, but it certainly made for some fun in between sessions. Check out the photos below, and watch the video, for a glimpse into how rugby players make the best out of a not-so-ideal situation.

Tubing in the Canal

Gone Fishin'

Kris Ledecky...errr...Thomas