Does it always rain like that in Manchester?
Lordy! I wasn't riding - fboab rode it solo, and I delivered/collected her to/from Cheadle with Teh Van. The rain on the way to the finish was horrendous - traffic mahem, floods, leaves blocking drains...
And yet no thread on YACF? You folks up North just take it in your stride, don't you? While us softy southerners have a good whine about some drizzle on Saturday in Oxfordshire, you Northern types are sloshing through axle-deep, thick brown flood water, shouting "Turned out nice again, ain't it?" to your mates.
Nutters!