Headwind champs.
Get amongst it.
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Time for a bit of flood dodging.
If I haven’t posted again by 9am can someone sling a net across the Bristol channel 
ETA - this is my way into Worcester 15mins ago, river on the left and racecourse on the right.
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Couple of extra bunny hops to get up curbs where the lowered part was flooded but managed normal route all the way in.
You can call off the Japanese whalers that were gathering around North Devon!
Although it’s still rising and I have to get home yet.
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Just the one downed tree for me to Cylocross dismount, jump and mount over on my way in this morning. Mainly a crosswind, so wasn’t too bad. Lots of debris, but nothing serious.
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This could equally go in the rant thread 
Absolutely foul weather this morning - heavy rain, windy, cold. Just the sort of day that had WFH written all over it, but my boss booked an IRL meeting in the office.
I walk in to the office and find a mail from my boss to say that she isn’t coming in today so we’ll do the meeting on Teams. She gets a taxi from the door of her house to the office door, so it’s not as if the weather actually affected her…
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That’s got to be one of my best rides into work ever.
Saw on twitter that the footbridge I use was open just before I set off but all the roads leading to/from it are still closed to traffic so once I got to the outskirts of town I had the place to myself.
ETA - You can just make out the footbridge above the railway bridge in this picture from yesterday. The huge expanse of water in the top right corner is the race course and those are full size buildings just peeping out.
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This is Worcester isn’t it? Mad!
As I ran over Hampton Court Bridge yesterday I noticed the Thames looked very high, not far off bursting. Nowhere near flooding though
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Although they’ve closed off the roads either side of the river, I’d have thought they’d have left a BMW only lane open 
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Yep Worcester city centre, the record height was Feb 2020 but only just below that this year and getting more often.
I saw a stat this week that there had only been five 5 metre floods at the cricket ground from 1865 to 2000, since 2000 there have been 8.
They don’t need to, they’re the ones that think the Road Closed sign doesn’t apply to them and drive through anyway and end up getting stuck.
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Last January was the worst that I can remember near Chester - the Dee floods regularly but it’s into fields so doesn’t generally affect traffic (it’s extensively flooded close to the road south of Chester now).
I did one ride last Jan where I went through about 20 floods, that was great fun.
Took one picture on the A41; just one abandoned car and not even a BMW sadly.
Your pic is much more impressive though
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I used to organise the Pitchcroft 10K, which was essentially three laps around the Worcester racecourse. Bear in mind the race was run in July . This is me standing on the only part of the course that wasn’t underwater in July 2007
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You’d have had wet feet stood there last week.
I rode in that way on Tuesday morning but the water was already creeping across the road there by lunchtime and didn’t peak until Wednesday.
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Swimrun ?
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Puncture on Friday going into work. OK, managed to chuck a new tube in that got me to work and back. But then that tube was dead flat on Saturday morning when I checked.
So Sunday gave the bike a complete wash and lube. Took the tube out, found a couple of pieces of embedded flint in the tyre. Checked it like 4 times. New tube in, all good.
Check this morning, all good. About 5km in hear a rubbing noise - thought it was my mudguards that had been knocked out of line when washing. Checked and adjusted. Still rubbing. Look down and the tyre had popped off the rim, so had this massive bubble rubbing on the frame. Stopped, let the tube down. Reseated the tyre. Co2 back up. All good.
A few kms later, same again. This time the tube bulging even more and the tyre bead has all scuffed and rubbed away. Basically fubared. Great.
Luckily was by a train station and could hear the train, so jumped on that quickly.
Wheel now jammed in the frame. Try to move it and then give the whole carriage a heart attack as my tube blows!
So now I gave a 1.5km walk pushing my bike to work in cleats. Going to have to work out how I get to and from work 3 times this week and repair my bike.
Great.
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??? That is some weird mechanical
Bad luck
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I regularly tell my wife that bikes are shit when I get into protracted problem like that.
Was your wheel properly fitted? Skewer tightened?..that’s all I can offer, sorry 
This made me laugh though 
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Yeah lol.
I can picture GB sheepishly apologising while raging with himself internally!
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The wheel was just jammed from the blown up tube. So it’s free now that it’s exploded!
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