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45km MTB ride in Andover a couple of weeks ago. Freezing cold and raining hard, had to keep stopping to wait for my mate (with injured shoulder) to catch up, so couldn't even work harder to get warm. The wind chill was vicious - I got an ice cream headache on every downhill.
To cap it all I'd stupidly put sealskins socks over thermal tights, which just wicked the rainwater down into the socks, so I ended up riding with my feet in 2 bags full of cold water. By the finish my hands were so cold I couldn't push the button to unlock the car to dump my sodden kit. Getting changed was pure hell, I just wanted to lay down and quietly expire.
Miserable.