Gone with the wind...

Thursday, 31 Jan 2008

Another 5:30am alarm call and out for a ride at 6am, or at least that was the plan! 5:30 soon because 5:38am before I got out of bed and though I was out of the house by 6am, I had left my light in the house, so shoes off, back in trying not to disturb everyone, and back out again. Then I find out that the handlebars on the bike are slipping, so out with the tools to tighten it up.

Set off about 6:15am in the dark, not realising quite how windy it was. It was only on the back roads to Hatfield Heath that I really noticed how strong it was. Down the hill to Pig Lane is normally great fun, but today I had to pedal hard just to maintain any sort of speed for the hill the other side! Up hill against strong wind is not a good combination - very slow :-(

Anyway the ride back from Harlow was much more fun - 35 mph at one point on a level surface with the wind behind me.

Back home about 7:45am, just in time to see the kids & Clare before they leave for school!

Another 23 miles done in just over 90 mins, but it took me till 10am to get to work again...

Total Miles for the month: 341 miles