A great front page, though.
A few years back I was riding Offa's Dyke 600. Had a bit of a 'mare on day one and got back to base at 400km around 6am. Had an hour's sleep and woke up to find the rain hammering down. I was just about to set out for the last 200 when Steve came in sans shoes carrying a wheel. He had got about three miles down the road, punctured and discovered he left his tyre levers at home, so ran back to base through the rain, with the wheel, in his socks cos you cannot run in road shoes. As it happens a large part of the field had already packed because, er, it was raining. Not Steve. Well 'ard!