Loved the rain today....

[Sheffield_Tiger]

This year I have done quite a few charity runs/walks so have walked to work more than cycled..

Coming home tonight, I realised it was the first time all year that I have ridden in significant rain (walked in it plenty) and made me realise how many times I punctuated the walks with driving, just out of habit. And how easily that "can't ride today, the sky has a grey tinge" mentality can creep back in and quickly become a mindset.

So glad to be soaked today, it reminded me that blood is warm and skin is waterproof

 

[Twelve Spokes]

No I missed it,I was already at work when it started.

 

[downfader]

No. Skin is a semi permeable membrane. Not quite waterproof. More like showerproof, hence why your fingers crease when soaked.

 

[David Garside]

...and apparently..according to my games teacher at school years ago....skin was the first drip-dry material invented....

 

[J.Primus]

...and apparently..according to my games teacher at school years ago....skin was the first drip-dry material invented....

If you don't count leaves

 

[Sara_H]

This year I have done quite a few charity runs/walks so have walked to work more than cycled..

Coming home tonight, I realised it was the first time all year that I have ridden in significant rain (walked in it plenty) and made me realise how many times I punctuated the walks with driving, just out of habit. And how easily that "can't ride today, the sky has a grey tinge" mentality can creep back in and quickly become a mindset.

So glad to be soaked today, it reminded me that blood is warm and skin is waterproof

The thursday before was my first really rainy ride of the year. It was torrential rain on my way down the hill - I could only open open one eye at a time!

 

[David Garside]

I used to run a bit and found that once your mindset is into it...you don't really worry about the rain...you only get wet once...once you're wet, you're wet lol...

 

[Octet]

Being wet is fine, being cold is fine, it's when you are wet and cold at the same time that it gets a bit miserable.

 

[Kies]

Being wet is fine - but being cold means I got my clothing wrong for riding. Experience eventually leads to less of these cold days

 

[MichaelO]

No. Skin is a semi permeable membrane. Not quite waterproof. More like showerproof, hence why your fingers crease when soaked.

That's been proved to be wrong - they wrinkle to improve grip by blood vessels contracting - nothing to do with osmosis.

Weirdly, the wrinkling doesn't happen in people with damaged nerve endings in their fingers

 

[downfader]

That's been proved to be wrong - they wrinkle to improve grip by blood vessels contracting - nothing to do with osmosis.

Weirdly, the wrinkling doesn't happen in people with damaged nerve endings in their fingers

Thats not what they said on Horizon... have you got a link to the nerve issue? Also who proved it to be wrong, I got that from a dermatologist?

 

[MichaelO]

Thats not what they said on Horizon... have you got a link to the nerve issue? Also who proved it to be wrong, I got that from a dermatologist?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/09/skin-wrinkle-water-grip

There's quite a few other references to this study. And the nerve damage thing has been used by doctors for years to ascertain damaged nerves.

 

[downfader]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/09/skin-wrinkle-water-grip

There's quite a few other references to this study. And the nerve damage thing has been used by doctors for years to ascertain damaged nerves.

Cool, thanks for that link

 

[J.Primus]

Is it terrible that after changing into my waterproofs to go home today I was disappointed that it turned to light rain by the time I was on my bike. I was fully prepared for the weather to do its worst and fail in the face of superior togs. Felt like a pyrrhic victory today.