Doing a sportive in the wind and rain not my idea of fun!!

mrjinx

Wet and windy weekend forecast and I have the 95 mile Burgess hill rumble to ride.
Should I stay in bed with the wife {Cheryl Cole look-alike} or turn out for a tough 5 hour ride?

2534david

well thats a no brainer :shock:

2534david

well thats a no brainer :shock:

Buckled_Rims

mrjinx wrote:

Wet and windy weekend forecast and I have the 95 mile Burgess hill rumble to ride.
Should I stay in bed with the wife {Cheryl Cole look-alike} or turn out for a tough 5 hour ride?

You mean she has false teeth, false hair, false personality and can't speak properly?

I'd rather bike 100 miles in a ferocious blizzard with no feedstations

edhornby

2534david wrote:

well thats a no brainer :shock:

you've met the real Cheryl Cole as well then?

Cleat Eastwood

Go on the ride, I'm booked in for a sesh on your wife at half ten.

TheBullet

Go on the ride, I'm booked in for a sesh on your wife at half ten

Hahahahahahahahahah
That really made me chuckle.

rolf_f

mrjinx wrote:

Wet and windy weekend forecast and I have the 95 mile Burgess hill rumble to ride.
Should I stay in bed with the wife {Cheryl Cole look-alike} or turn out for a tough 5 hour ride?

Forecast looks OK to me. I'll be Rumbling but then I'm hard

cougie

Go for the sportif. Rain and wind will make you tougher. Cos you sound a bit like a wuss to me...

AndyRubio

It's more fun when th weather's bad. Worse at the time, but so much better when you're nice and warm afterwards. Worth the suffering.

CC will be keeping the bed nice and warm for you for when you get back. Win-win.

Brian B

mrjinx wrote:

Wet and windy weekend forecast and I have the 95 mile Burgess hill rumble to ride.
Should I stay in bed with the wife {Cheryl Cole look-alike} or turn out for a tough 5 hour ride?

Stay in bed if the weathers bad but then prepare to be miserable all day and you'll keep checking the weather forecasts. The get annoyed when other forumites post that the weather was not as bad as forecasted and they only got the odd shower.

Book up for another sportive and repeat the process with another equally dire forecast. Eventually you will get a favourable forecast and go for it just to be rained on all day.

PS I often dont turn up for events if the weather looks grim.

Casbar

If their signage is as bad as last time , it doesn't matter if the weather is good or bad as you will get totally lost anyway !!!!!!!!!

Btw it looks like the weather will be better on the weekend , than the last 2 days here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/ ... ess%20Hill

sherer

I did the 67 mile route last year and the signage was fine. One was missing near the end but that was in a built up area so put that down to kids.

Would have been easier if this just said rain then I could make my mind up to. Earlier in the week rain was listed.

Ron Stuart

Here is a link to the Met Office weather for your part of the world for the weekend coming..... http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ ... ather.html
If you study this twice a day till Sunday you will notice that it will probably change twice a day until Sunday as do all the weather forecasts.
I know I have sat here looking out the window at the rain coming down and then at the above weather station for my area which tells me it is light cloud and dry all at the same time.
Please don't be ruled by weather forecasts, there are mainly a job creation scheme set up by the weather folk at the BBC, etc.
If you need cheering up I can get you a nice Autumn/Winter break here.... http://www.burgauvilladosol.com/property.htm

and the weather forecast for this part of the world looks somewhat more settled at the moment here... http://www.weather-forecast.com/locatio ... sts/latest

freehub

MTFU.

mrjinx

Thank for all your advice weather set fine for Sunday so I’m happy.
Leaving the wife in bed and giving the bike a 5 hour sweaty session instead!

Anonymous

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

Go on the ride, I'm booked in for a sesh on your wife at half ten.

Oh Ballcakes, I'm due to see her at quarter to eleven. Don't go all foreign and do it twice, alright ?

mrjinx

she said you were crap!

Le Commentateur

freehub

Did you MTFU, get outa bed with the cheryl Cole lookalike, get yer lycra on, get yer bike out of your garage, and get all wet and sweaty in the great outdoors?

mrjinx

Thanks for asking mate, managed the 92 miler rode, all the climbs overtook some of the semi-pros {they wish} at Ardingly reservoir I’m in the latter part of the 40-49 group and managed the time of …………………5.56 enjoyed the day

ratsbeyfus

I stayed in bed coz I got a stomach bug the day before. The SRS events are jinxed for me - I've missed 2 through illness, had mechanicals on another two causing DNFs, and the one I did manage to do was a complete wash out... I hope everyone else enjoyed it though.