Rain

Most of my biking buddies and I have a rule about rain: if it's raining when we start we don't ride, but if we get caught in the rin we finish, and if it's an unbelievable storm we take shelter for a while.
When I started out at 6:15 this morning it was dark from clouds, but didn't look bad -- but as I rode out of my development I saw some lightning, but it loked quite a bit south, so I rode on. As I pedaled along I saw more lightning, but no rain. Suddenly I began to feel a few drops, and see more lightning out west. And at 4 miles I decided to turn around. The rain and lightning started to pick up and as I rode back I saw that it had rained harder behind me.

And as is often the case, as soon as I arrived home it started to really pour buckets.

So 8 miles for the day and right at about 90 for the week.

I did notice that the swimmers weren't there this morning so they must have bailed out early due to lightning.

I have learned to swim in the rain but not a good idea during thunder. In fact all the indoor pools close during lightning for some odd reason.

Off to Canada.