Well this is no good is it, It's Saturday morning and I should be out playing on my bike, but I'm not, I'm sat here tapping away on the lap Top. And why may you ask am I not out playing? Well, have you looked out yet? I guess not as it's lashing it down and even I'm not that stupid. Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against getting wet and muddy, in fact it's one of my favorite past times, but I always find it hard to muster the enthusiasm to go and deliberately get wet without a good reason, so I'll just have to find something else to do instead. I did manage to get out for some good bike miles last weekend, when the weather was a bit more co-operative, and having realised that in October I ran more miles than I rode, they were badly needed miles (195 V 120 if your interested (shocking isn't it!)) I'm a bit short on photos so you'll just have to take my word for it that I managed 120 miles on Saturday by pushing north from home towards Oxford, before doubling back via Marlow and the East side of Reading. This is a great little winter route with a good mix of climbing through the edge of the Chiltern hills and flat fast sections, making use of some good, but not overly busy roads, which tend to be better maintained, although less scenic, for getting in the winter miles. Once the sun burned away the early morning mist it was a beautiful day for being out on the bike and with no need to stop, and under the current regulations nowhere open to stop, I didn't hang around and was back home well in time for tea. My legs felt surprisingly good Sunday morning after Saturdays efforts, so a bit more of the same seemed in order. The weather wasn't quite as good so I stayed fairly local and headed out through Kingsclere towards Hungerford before coming back via the climb up to Coombe Gibbet before dropping back down to Whitchurch and home.
Not a bad morning out and handily I was home before the afternoon rain started (which was nice). A quick trip up to the allotment to pick up some veg for tea followed by a couple of hours pottering around in the workshop wrapped the weekend up nicely. And on that note, sitting here catching up on last weeks blog posts isn't achieving anything or getting us anything to write about this week. It's still wazzing it down and blowing a gale, but I got some new waterproof trousers the other day so I might as well take advantage of the opportunity and go and test them out!
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Paul PerrattOld enough to know better, young enough to still feel invincible, stupid enough to keep on trying the same thing again and again. Cyclist, Gardener, Runner, Hiker, Cook, Woodworker, Engineer, Jack of all trades and master of none, Anti social old git and all round miserable bugger. Archives
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