Death Hailstorm from Frozen Hell

Littigator

As if the hurricane that is the Millbank Wind Tunnel blowing me to a halt wasn't offensive enough last night...apparently Mother Earth felt the need to throw hail at my face for the duration of my ride home.

I'm not kidding it felt like someone was firing at me!

Anyone else enjoy this particular pleasure yesterday evening?

Greg T

I too suffered from the hail blasting.......

It actually kicked in just as I rounded onto the wind tunnell stretch and I got the full effect.

To add insult to my wet icy misery, I'd left my waterproof at home having looked out at the fabulous morning and thought - nah.

Ag ag ag ag ag.....

Kieran_Burns

Sorry Litt, but my ride home last night was very enjoyable. A gentle tailwind combined with quiet roads (when I was on them) made for a pleasant ride home

I'm hoping it stays COLD today so the bridleway is frozen (or at least very hard) and make the cycling even easier.

GEPC

I waited at work until it was over so just missed it.

W1

Missed the storm by half an hour and had a great ride home - very little wind by 7pm or so too, which was odd.

jstutters

Started hailing when I got to Shepherds Bush at about 6pm, eased down to heavy rain about ten minutes after that and didn't stop until I got home. My shoes and gloves were still soaked this morning. Seriously nasty evening. On a brighter note most of the drivers were taking it fairly easily and seemed to be leaving a bit more room than normal.

jedster

Got off the train ready for my 10 mile leg home to find it sleeting heavily. Lovely. Fortunately I was well wrapped up - leg warmers, windproof, merino woolbase layer and jersey, buff, etc. One problem - was wearing my shoes rather than winter boots. Halfway through the trip there was a deep puddle spanning the whole road. Those cunning mesh panels around the toes meant that my feet were bathed in near freezing water for the last five miles.

Note to self - it's winter, put the summer shoes away.

J

Sewinman

MTFU :roll:

Clever Pun

yeah I got a fair pummeling from the hail... no cap = face full of pain

jedster

<i>MTFU
</i>

Do you remember that Lofty Wiseman bloke (ex-SAS survival instructor) who used to be on the telly in the 80s?

One thing he used to say stuck in my mind:

"any idiot can be uncomfortable"

J

jonginge

I took a punt and waited it out. The rain/hail/wind nightmare had passed when I set off just gone 7pm. This is a first for me: normally these storms drench me to the bone as I go through Putney (it's always putney for some bizarre reason)

Sewinman

jedster wrote:

<i>MTFU
</i>

Do you remember that Lofty Wiseman bloke (ex-SAS survival instructor) who used to be on the telly in the 80s?

One thing he used to say stuck in my mind:

"any idiot can be uncomfortable"

J

Do you think as an SAS survival instructor he was referring to a ten minute hail storm?

p.s. only joking - it hurt like hell.

biondino

No hail for me but I got a stone kicked up by a car wheel hit me full in the face just under my right eye. Definitely going to stick with the clear-lens glasses through the winter even though I don't need corrective specs.

lost_in_thought

I left work, popped into the bike shop to get a light, by the time I left it was raining heavily or so I thought, so I popped my cap on, already had the waterproof jacket on, and off I went...

Ow ow ow b@stard hail ow ow ow stop it! Ow!

Furthermore, hurry up Sigma and deliver my bib tights! My legs are cold!

Why is there not a 'brrrrr' emoticon?

Did anyone else see cars driving around with an inch of snow on them this morning?

il_principe

See this is the sort of weather where us silly little cap wearers get all smug - at least I would have been smug if I was on the bike. I observed the hail from the interior of the slowest most packed bus ever. Grrr I hate PT and I hate man flu.

Beautiful day again, chances of it hailing again tonight I wonder?

lost_in_thought

I had a proper baseball cap on, Jash, and still got hailed on!

Ow!

And my tights have just arrived. Hurrah! Warm legs this evening!

il_principe

lost_in_thought wrote:

I had a proper baseball cap on, Jash, and still got hailed on!

Ow!

And my tights have just arrived. Hurrah! Warm legs this evening!

Erm wearing a hat won't actually stop it from hailing Lit.

*whispers* Hats aren't magic you know.

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

I had a proper baseball cap on, Jash, and still got hailed on!

Ow!

And my tights have just arrived. Hurrah! Warm legs this evening!

Erm wearing a hat won't actually stop it from hailing Lit.

*whispers* Hats aren't magic you know.

Next you'll tell me the tooth fairy doesn't exist... :shock:

ride_whenever

I've decided that life is too short, I'm now perpetually wearing fingerless mitts and my floppy pointy hat with clear glasses. Being a big sissie though I am wearing a full wicking lycra base-layer, so i'm toasty warm now.

jstutters

jashburnham wrote:

*whispers* Hats aren't magic you know.

I beg to differ...

Stuww

I got pasted by the hail on the way out of Exeter yesterday.

I even took a convoluted route to out run the clouds, but they got me in the end!!!!!

Felt like a group of kids had opened up with pea shooters on me, not nice!

Littigator

Jash is banned from this thread or he'll spread his germs and lurgy everywhere (query is lurgy spelt ending 'y' or 'ie', hmmmmm?)

jstutters - good call hats are indeed very very magical items as easily demonstrated by anyone putting on a policeman's helmet, they magically turn into a c*** woah, sorry forgot where i was going there

cjcp

jashburnham wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

I had a proper baseball cap on, Jash, and still got hailed on!

Ow!

And my tights have just arrived. Hurrah! Warm legs this evening!

Erm wearing a hat won't actually stop it from hailing Lit.

*whispers* Hats aren't magic you know.

Silly little caps are great for those of us who wear glasses too.

woodford2barbican

MTFU.

Try a hailstorm in the middle of January, whilst sitting in singlet and shorts in the middle of a reservoir in a single scull, trying not to shiver too much so that you don't capsize.

That, is more painful than childbirth.

cjcp

woodford2barbican wrote:

MTFU.

Try a hailstorm in the middle of January, whilst sitting in singlet and shorts in the middle of a reservoir in a single scull, trying not to shiver too much so that you don't capsize.

That, is more painful than childbirth.

You big girl.

don_don

No hail over here in yokel-land, although I did become slightly moist on the way home.... it was drizzling.

Bloody hell it was icy this morning though, had to take it very easy on the corners. They are now saying "very very cold tonight on the radio".

don_don

Errm, I mean "very very cold tonight", not cold on the radio itself :roll:

Wrath Rob

don_don wrote:

I did become slightly moist on the way home

Its always nice to see Don appear on a thread.

greg66_tri_v2.0

woodford2barbican wrote:

MTFU.

Try a hailstorm in the middle of January, whilst sitting in singlet and shorts in the middle of a reservoir in a single scull, trying not to shiver too much so that you don't capsize.

That, is more painful than childbirth.

So not quite as painful as banging your shin, then.

Greg T

Stubbing your toe, without your shoes on, on the coffee table leg = worse than childbirth.

lost_in_thought

woodford2barbican wrote:

MTFU.

Try a hailstorm in the middle of January, whilst sitting in singlet and shorts in the middle of a reservoir in a single scull, trying not to shiver too much so that you don't capsize.

That, is more painful than childbirth.

Surely rowing would have been a better option than sitting??