Wednesday nights..."train in the rain"!

After an extended dry spell here in Florida, we're now back to our usual afternoon thunderstorms. Typically, around 3 in the afternoon we get squeezed between the east and west coast seabreezes that create some rather violent weather conditions! The last two Wednesday night rides have been wet ones. Last week, it was dry until we turned for home with 8 miles to go. Huge raindrops and lightning, coupled with puddles 2-3" deep are not my favorite riding conditions. Yesterday, the rain started earlier than normal. By the time we rolled out at 6P, most of the thunderstorms had passed. The threat of rain, however, chased off all but 6 of us (our normal group is 25-30 strong!). The roads were a bit wet and there were a few brief showers...but, a good trade-off in the temperature department as it was in the high-70's instead of the usual low-90's. It's a rolling course and the wind was pretty fierce. The 6 of us kept up a pretty steady pace and managed to knock out a 24.7 average over the 45+ miles.