Man, did I get soaked yesterday. I decided to ride despite the rainy forecast because ... I just felt like riding. Made it to work with just a few sprinkles along the way, and also hit a lull in the storms when I left work in the afternoon, even though it rained hard throughout the day. Then I made my mistake. When I got to my neighborhood, it was still barely sprinkling, so I decided to tack another 10 miles onto my commute since the weather has been so iffy. That's when the bottom dropped out, and I rode in a steady drizzle for the last 8 miles of my commute. I was soaked like a wet rat by the time I got home.

I don't know how you guys who ride in the rain all the time handle it. It's not that riding in the rain, per se, is so bad -- it's the cleaning up and drying up afterwards. I spent about 20 minutes drying and cleaning my bike, and then had to go ahead wash all of my clothes so they wouldn't get skanky sitting in a wet pile. And I still need to remove my seatpost and dry out my frame.

BTW, it was still raining this morning, so I drove. I had some errands to run anyway, so hopefully I'll be back riding tomorrow under better weather conditions. As Itsjustb mentioned, we are in the midst of a terrible drought in NC, so there's seldom a need to ride in the rain because it's dry most of the time.