Okay, there was a lot of interest about my ride today. The general consensus was to not go for 113km ride in the rain. In short you were right.
At out first stop (23km) we had a coffee and decided that we were too wet to complete the whole course. The start of the day was the wettest while we were out. By the time we stopped our gloves were wet, my socks we wet and we were a little miserable. We decided to head in a different direction for lunch and then finish the last 25km of the original route. We ended up with 57km in almost solid light-medium rain. The temperature was between 3-5°C. We stopped for a nice lunch and it totally turned around out day, it ended enjoyable and fun.
A few lessons:
I took some advice from some of the comments to my previous post. I put my feet inside plastic bags before putting them in my shoes. This did not work. The bags just filled with water run off from my legs and was fairly awful.
We did take spare socks, gloves and jerseys. My jersey was nice and dry, but I changed gloves and socks.
I had a buff around my neck. It kept me warm but mostly was used to stop the ice rain needles hurting my lips and chin on the faster sections.
by Back2Basic5
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In wet weather, wear your bibtights OVER the overshoes if you can, to prevent water from sliding down in your shoes. Also tape over any exposed holes under the shoes. Sooner or later you’ll still get wet in heavy rain or if there’s a lot of standing water on the road, but it’ll definitely delay it.