The It's Raining Thread - So Five Things to Pump You Up

[Viper]

Post Your 5 things to keep yourself/others jazzed while it's raining out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBi-LNM0Og

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99O9XJA8NJE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYV7WeaDP_8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAmzKF-N6Ik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY

BONUS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7An8Gn8ye5w

:beer:

[veloduffer]

Here's for riding in the rain:

http://www.rapha.cc/rapha-rides-little-switzerland

[Bob Loblaw]

I actually like riding in the rain. Today was a gym day, but tomorrow I'll be out there on the bike. Plenty of rain in the forecast, should be a good time.

BL

[MattTuck]

According to paul sherwin, there's more oxygen available in the air when it rains. So you don't have any excuses to be slow tomorrow Bob ;)

[Bob Loblaw]

I'm slow every day. Maybe I'll be fast for a change with the added oxygen!

According to paul sherwin, there's more oxygen available in the air when it rains. So you don't have any excuses to be slow tomorrow Bob ;)

[Gummee]

Its a LOT more fun running in the rain. Riding in the rain always ends up with me wet and miserable, and often times cold.

I got lucky today. Weather guessers were saying t-storms all day. Went out anyway, taking my Gore Tex jacket along 'just in case.'

Managed to ride around all the rain and stayed in the sun. :hello: All except about a mile of really light drizzle just north of Bealeton, VA.

M

[Ken Robb]

According to paul sherwin, there's more oxygen available in the air when it rains. So you don't have any excuses to be slow tomorrow Bob ;)

Pilots are taught that damp air has less oxygen. I can't tell any difference.

[MattTuck]

Pilots are taught that damp air has less oxygen. I can't tell any difference.

I have no idea the basis or reasoning for either belief. When it is raining, there is obviously more water vapor H2O, and liquid H2O that takes up space that otherwise would be filled with nitrogen/oxygen/argon/co2/other elements. I don't understand how oxygen would preferentially gain 'market share' when all those constituent parts should be less available due to H2O.

That said, Paul says it virtually everytime it is raining in a bike race. So maybe it has something to do with the human lung, and moisture increases our oxygen uptake ability at the biological level.

Who knows. ;)