Weather in Ornans

14C and a 45% chance of rain! That sounds worse than Ireland.

Reports from the last two weekends of racing on the way soon - damn my busy life - 'off-season' will be here soon.

Spot the difference

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Number 1 was yesterday, number 2 today... Seriously - it's the SUMMER time... Grrrrr

Met Eireann proubly anounces todays weather as "Showers or longer spells of rain, with some very heavy or thundery downpours." - that has been the outlook for the last week. I can deal with training in crappy weather all winter - that's fine - but the summer has to be a bit nicer! It's warmer, yeah - but much wetter.

Better get on my bike...

Please don't make the lovely dry trails wet...

I think the Weather Widget is funny...

I'm about to head out but it doesn't look -13C! What's up with the silly widgets anyway...

Rain repeats...

I was out on the road bike last night (I'll take the rain over the turbo trainer any day) and I swear the rain was out training with me... I think it was doing some sort of Lactate Threshold drills. Basically the rain was going heavy 2 minutes, light 4 minutes, heavy 2 minutes.... It did about 3 sets of this with a 6 minute mizzle between sets... (Or maybe it was doing Ryan persistence testing drills...) Maybe it has a big storm or something coming up soon that it's getting ready for. I know that the weather has been terrible around her these last two weeks :(

In other news, I'm probably doing my second ever road race this weekend, the Sean Nolan Meath GP... Hopefully the weather wont be as bad as the last one... Also, Mel and Fergal are taking part in the Rogaine this weekend. Mel and I did it last year and with the current weather forecasts, I'm glad I'm not getting ready for it this year.