Anybody else actually prefer this weather in some ways?

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Or am I just mad?

I think I actually prefer the colder nights, a bit of rain, a tad on the cold side but not freezing...

The last few months I'd been getting lackadaisical about getting out running...I'd been cycling a bit more in the mornings mainly due to getting up early with the sunrise. Tonight after riding home via Lidl to find empty shelves where cycling gear had been (so bought a bottle of whisky instead so not too disappointed) then to pets at home to fill my panniers to bursting point with food for the cats...I got the urge to go out for a run.

Tracksuit bottoms, Climacool Tee and a Lidl cycling gilet..Just right for a 6 mile circuit out in Derbyshire, just the light of my head torch illuminating the fine, cooling drizzle falling on my face, and hardly a soul in sight save for 3 mountain bikers . A good sweat worked up but not streaming into my eyes, and the solitude and silence allowing me to completely lose myself in my thoughts

I love passing fields of livestock and just seeing hundreds of eyes reflecting my torchlight back at me

There is something quite magical about the night, that is lost in the summer

 

[taxing]

I'm hating it. It's freezing and last week on a dark morning a man followed me down a deserted street shouting "NATALIE!!!!!!" at me over and over again. I don't know who Natalie is, but the way he was shouting it, I hope that he doesn't catch up with her.

 

[ACW]

NO

 

[jig-sore]

love the dark, don't mind the rain, could do without the wind

 

[Crankarm]

Nope, the weather is crap and it's only going to get worse as the dark season progresses.

Btw ST you are clearly a barking masochist .

 

[MacB]

Yep, I like riding in the dark, I enjoy cooler weather and don't mind it a bit of wind and rain. Torrential downpours and vicious headwinds are another thing, but thankfully a rare event.

 

[rockyraccoon]

Anything but wind and rain. I also enjoy riding in the dark.

 

[MacB]

Anything but wind and rain. I also enjoy riding in the dark.

I actually feel safer on some roads, I'm sure that 3 smart superflashes on the back has something to do with that.

 

[Hover Fly]

Yep, it was too hot in July and August.
http://www.meteo-bordeaux.com/

 

[yello]

There is something quite magical about the night, that is lost in the summer

There's nothing like a clear summer's night imo. The 400 I did in June, a section of it was ridden alongside a river (the Cher if you're interested) at around 2 or 3am. Indescribably serene. I could have died there and then in total happiness, my life complete and feeling fulfilled.

I do prefer the autumn to the summer for riding though. This summer has been too damned hot for me and it's only now I've started to ride in the afternoons. I don't mind the rain at all (if I'm out in it, getting out when it's raining is another story!) but am not a fan of the wind - whatever its direction.

So, yes, in short, I do prefer the less-than-summer weather.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Btw ST you are clearly a barking masochist .

You might be right because my thoughts are turning once more to wild camping (new sleeping bag required first though, doubt my £20 Outwell one will be quite up to it)

 

[Brandane]

As I discovered last night, riding in the dark is quite pleasant. Headwinds I don't enjoy, but they are just about sufferable. Rain; well it depends on the degree of "rain". We get plenty of it in the west of Scotland, and for me it gets very tedious when it is the type of rain that just goes on for hour after hour, then day after day. Showers I can deal with, but when it's persisting it down I just won't go cycling in it. Don't enjoy it, so don't do it!

 

[Bman]

Nah. Nothing beats riding at midnight during the summer months wearing just a t-shirt

edit: ....and shorts!

 

[asterix]

I know exactly what you mean!

Last week I got back from France where it was hot and sunny and immediately thought 'how refreshing the lowering grey clouds and the rain and wind is' (It hadn't rained for weeks if not months in France)

Trouble is, it's still raining and grey although the wind has dropped and I am now looking forward to my return to France in a couple of weeks.

 

[SquareDaff]

Have got to agree - really enjoying my commute at the moment - don't even really mind the fog!