The worst weather races make the best stories. You just can’t tell that at the start line.

What makes an experience good to remember and good to live through are different qualities, and they frequently conflict. The miserable day becomes the one you talk about for years, precisely because it was hard and you were in it. None of that is available at the beginning, when all you have is the cold and a sensible wish to be somewhere else. Value arrives late and cannot be felt early.

Go to the one this weekend that you are dreading because of the forecast. Decide now rather than on the morning, when the decision gets made by whoever you are at six in the rain.