The forecast was for rain all day and I didn’t think I’d have a chance to get out on a bike today. I finished work at 5:30 and conditions looked pleasant enough – blue skies, warm-ish and the roads were drying up nicely – so I thought I’d risk 20 or so on the Boardman.
Actually very pleasant out there; not much wind and intermittent warm sunshine. I pedalled over toward Hathern then hung a left to Diseworth. I would have come back down from there but I decided it wasn’t going to rain, and I pressed on a bit further, to skirt the bottom end of the airport at Donington and back down through Isley Walton.
As I turned southward I noticed mildly threatening skies a few miles ahead. Not only that, but there was an indistinct, partial rainbow to the east (of course – this being only a couple of hours before sunset). The rain started not long after and continued intermittently for the next half hour, but it was very light. The bike and I pretty much dried off completely during the last 15 minutes, after it had stopped.
Very pleasant excursion despite the mild precipitation. 23.76 miles. Even when the forecasters threaten rain for a week, you usually get at least one window of opportunity for a bit of a run out – and today was a case in point.