What if you're stuck in a lightning storm???

[Andrea]

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)

[Geonz]

Welp, in all those summers as a swimming pool lifeguard, my hair's stood up lots of times and I haven't been struck It did strike closely enough for me to feel it in my feet once (in the dead of winter when I was taking a nap, inside... I thought something had blown up when the crash woke me up but my feet were tingling and then it started snowing like crazy... lots of folks stuck in Baltimore that day!).

The one time I was out doing a one-way ('wind-aided') century and the nasties came up... we rode hard and found a barn. Oh, there was that moonlight ride where we could see a real light show off in the distance but we were in well before it was even ten miles away.