Riding in a full body puddle

Difficult to see but it is truly bucketing down here as Newbie Phil pulls in to the meeting point, wryly smiling. Hoping for a postponement text that never came, he later sent me this:

Which sounds a lot saucier that I suspect he intended.

Just 60k for the day plus a fairly full on spin class and I have shedified all the bikes in my determination to begin a taper for next Sunday's Wicklow 200. Just the 20k commute and a single class tomorrow. My legs are already humming their misguided gratitude.