We've had a couple of days riding in the rain, fog and cloud with temperatures in the single digits. Despite the frozen fingers and extremely wet roads, Alex, Nick and Christian still cut lose and were cracking speeds over 50kph including overtaking two police officers on bike as well! In a 60 zone of course. They went on to complete the distance of two 80km ride days. Gutsy effort.
Hypothermia was claiming a few riders who ignored the warnings of poor conditions and set out in short Knicks and t-shirts. It got that bad that extra coaches were chartered and even shipping containers used to ferry riders who were electing to sag before the rides. One teacher that I spoke to stated that 70% of her year 8 group elected not to ride these days.