Yesterday I got to ride in my first rain storm of the summer. I've been avoiding the rainy days this summer by driving to work. This time I sucked it up and rode in during a mild drizzle. It was cool and turned out to be a very enjoyable 17 miles to work.

Once I got to work is started raining in ernest and drizzled/rained the rest of the day. By the time I got ready to ride home everything was completly soaked outside. I don't have fenders on my bike yet so I got pretty wet on the way home even with a rain resistant wind breaker on.

I'm sure all the people I passed on the way home thought I was nuts because I was grinning all the way home (I had mud on my teeth to prove it). It was a blast riding through all the puddles and seeing just how much of a rooster tail I could make on my back. I did a pretty good job and all my biking clothes are still at home drying out today.

I averaged around 15-16mph on the way home including traffic stops and I have about a 5-15mph head wind most of the way home.