I was in a similar situation on Saturday- started a 32.2 mile race in the sun, 10 miles later, the black clouds come in, followed by a torrential downpour and lightning/thunder for the next 6 miles or so, then a slacking off and ending with sunshine again...


Our solution was to just ride as hard as possible and try to scare the bejezus out of other riders & drop them

(it's bike racing... sometimes you gotta be mean)