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No cotton, no cotton, no cotton!!

The afore-mentioned double-layer socks and Bodyglide will help too.

Good luck!

Jay

I've run a bunch of road marathons in the rain and never had problems. It's also just amazing how fast everything dries if it stops raining part way through. That assumes decent socks and stuff.

If you want to be more careful, you could start doing some of the stuff that ultramarathoners do. Hydropel, Injinji socks under, Sealskinz over, taping all the likely spots are some of the things you might do there.

The resource everybody uses to learn all that stuff is the book "Fixing Your Feet" available at Amazon or nearly everywhere.

The one thing I'd not suggest is Gore-tex shoes. When it's really wet the water will get in; with goretex shoes you'lljust dry out more slowly.

Final note, if your feet are wet at the end, make sure you get them aired out afterwards. It takes skin hours to get macerated (prune skin) but at that point it is transparent to infections and other bad stuff. So hanging around at the finish and driving home without airing things out is arguable more hazardous than the race itself.