Sounds like my Flatlands Tour (the full century) went better than Harry's.

Not much pacelining today--the weather was not conducive to setting speed records anyway.

No one had fenders and it wouldn't have mattered much as hard as it came down. By far, the scariest part was the lightning, especially when we were riding along tree-lines:

http://bimactive.com/ba/journal/post/10783/23986

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Isaias