JoeOxfordCT

I signed up and raised the money. Saturday night I packed my bike so all I had to do Sunday morning was get in my car and drive to Windsor. I went to bed to the sound of thunderstorms....
Sunday morning @ 5am I checked the weather radar and it showed a large storm headed to Windsor with more coming behind. I decided to bag the ride. Riding 100 miles in and out of thunderstorms is not my idea of fun.

I'm wondering if anyone else did the ride and if so how the weather was ?

ct-vt-trekker

We did this ride. Myself, my wife, my brother and his wife. We planned this months ago. My brother was visiting from Florida so we decided to go anyway. We just adjusted our plans and did the 50 mile ride instead of the century. Our thinking was the storms would pass before the later start and that's exactly what happened! The 50 miler started at 9:00am instead of 7:00Am. The roads were still wet at the beginning of the ride but we didn't ride in any rain at all. Overall it was a great day.

I ran into a few of the century riders and they said that they rode in 1/2 to 1 hour of torential rains at the beginning of the ride.

JoeOxfordCT

Well that would have been me on the 100 mile route early on getting poured on....
So did you get any showers in the early afternoon or were you done by then ?

We got showers in Oxford around 3:30 but the line of storms was slanted so I belive Windsor would have gotten then earlier.....? I knew I would be kicking myself no matter whether I decided to ride or not.

ct-vt-trekker

We were done with the ride by 12:30. We stayed around the picnic area for a while, then got free 10 minute massages. We left by 2:30 and it was still clear, only windy.
I live an hour south and it didn't rain untill around 5:00pm where I live.

JoeOxfordCT

Ugh....well....I made the call I made.....
I think I'm done with these raise money to ride affairs....bad enough I have to hit folks up for money. Worse when you have to explain why you didn't ride....

Glad you got a ride in !

CPFITNESS

man up and ride, the people you are raising money for are dealing with a lot worse things then getting rained on.

JoeOxfordCT

I appreciate your statement however....

1. It's not like the money I raised won't get paid if I don't ride...the ride was my reward.
2. My mother lived with and died chiefly from MS....so don't lecture me about the disease.

CPFITNESS

wasn't a lecture and I respect the fact that you raised the money but as someone that has donated to things like this I'd kind of feel hoodwinked if the person didn't complete the task though I will say most of my donations have been for team in training marathons where the people are getting a portion of the proceeds raised to fund their trip to whereever the race is so if someone raised the money and didnt' do the race it would be like using the donors for a free vacation which would really be sheisty.

JoeOxfordCT

I agree with you in that I do/did feel like I cheated folks by not riding but riding in the rain (however much rain there ended up being) for that length, I had intended to do the 100 mile route, was not going to give my donations added value. But since I do still feel funny about not riding I am more likely to skip these money raising rides in the future. I picked this one because of my personal connection to the disease and the fact that I was looking for a 100 mile ride early in the season.
I will also give props to the folks at the MS Society too as they recorded the fact that I did not ride and sent me an email yesterday afternoon inviting me to ride their Westport ride this coming Sunday. This after I signed to ride the Hat City Cyclefest yesterday morning.

Standalone 

I love rain. All my bikes are "rain" bikes.