It seems like my most used piece of clothing lately is a raincoat. Forget doing a rain dance if you want rain, just invite me over.
The province of British Columbia has been having a very, very hot dry summer. Forest fires are everywhere, and each day on the news it is a matter of updates how many people have been evacuated and how many firefighter experts have arrived from all over the world to help. Since I have spent most of my summer in much milder weather I headed out west to get in some heat training. And of course the day I arrived it was raining. Which is a good thing, since the area is in need of the liquid gold.
However when I headed out for my ride the other day, skies were clear, it was warm. Half way through I find myself under a grey sky, wet, cold and cranky. I keep heading towards the clear sky ahead, but somehow the rain cloud keeps following me around, and it is not only till I am almost done my ride that I find dry pavement again.
Kind of reminds me of doing a bike ride in St Croix a few years back. It is a very dry island, where it rains for about 4 minutes each day. I headed out for a ride, managed to get rained on the entire ride, and when I got back talked to a couple of other athletes who also rode, without even as much as a drop of rain falling on them. So I must have a talent for attracting a rain cloud, and having it follow me around.
I wonder if this would make my P4 less aero?
