Definitely brutal. Rain + 40-50° range sucks. Well, ok. 45-50° sucks, 40-45° super sucks, and anything less than 40° SUCKS, especially over distance. And hills. Did 39°-ish for four hours and one really beefy climb (20% grade for a bit, plus a bunch of 15% stair steppers..) over 40 miles in the rain, in the dark. Thanks, Seattle winter! I was on my '85 Trek 620 with its original canti brakes. Man did they get soft at the end of that loooooong descent! Went to get out of the saddle for a quick hill and felt a big squish-squish in my cycling shoes. Yeah. Completely soaked through, everywhere. I couldn't even look at my bike for a day, it was so filthy. Took me four hours and half a disassembly to clean it all! Never again!
[Thankfully no shivering. Love for, er, um, king and country, kept me above threshold there. That and whatever "base" I had worked up during the first half of Covidland. My base is more, say, quicksand this year.
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