Floods ahoy!

Well, we seem to have said goodbye to the snow for the time being, and instead of snow we have had rain.  Admittedly, not as much as they have done in Brisbane, Australia, but quite a bit nonetheless - sufficient for the River Bollin and the River Mersey to have burst their banks in Heatley and Carrington respectively.  Here's some evidence of the Half Mile Road, Carrington for you:

The water was so deep that you couldn't see the floor - it came up to the hubs on my wheels - so it was well over a foot deep in the middle.  Unfortunately, Yvonne decided to try and keep to the side of the road rather than the middle, which meant she went in even deeper than me!  At one point, we wondered where she was going as she was drifting to the side - there was quite a strong current in the middle of it.  I have a bit of a dodgy track record where crossing water is concerned and I was fully expecting to fall over and get soaking wet.  As it turned out, we all ended up with saturated feet and wheels full of water - good job it was at the end of the ride and not the beginning otherwise we would have frozen to death!

We went out via Manchester Motorhome Hire (AKA Robin Hood Beds in Stretford) to show Yvonne where we're going to be hiring our motorhome from when we do the RAB in June (I put the deposit down yesterday - very exciting!) and from thence we went out to Altrincham, Ashley, Tatton Wall and Bucklow Hill.  The link to our ride is below:

http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/896389

You can see on the map where the flood was near the end of the ride as our speed goes to more or less 0 mph!

We now have a full complement of Manchester Reorganisation Services riders for the RAB relay, as Rob Howells has joined Yvonne and I and Jonathan Amor.  I think there's about 125 days to go now - no doubt that will fly by!