I had a mostly dry ride to Willingham by Stow. Mike Thomson caught me on the Selby bike path, and he towed me the 50km or so to his control at Crowle (where the rain started again). The elastic was threatening to break by the time we got there (due to me being overburdened with silverwear, no doubt), so I let him go. By the time I got to Epworth the sun was out, and just as Jim Hopper and Ed Hargreaves caught me, they swerved into a garden centre cafe so I joined them for lunch. The sun was still out until we split at Beckingham, but on the lane to the Trent from Beckingham, there were hailstones on the verge, so it looks as if my timing was spot on.