It’s a hard knock life. Honest. *grin*. OK, it’s not. Not when I get to spend a few hours cycling in the sun as I did this morning. On a day like this, why would you be doing anything else? You may drive past me in your metal box, shooting daggers at me with your eyes as I presume to take up space on your road…but I know who’s happiest, and it ain’t you 🙂
Today was an ACG ride, and a relatively well attended one at that. There was me, GB, SD, BDR, DM, the Boy Wonder, and a triathlete lady who’s joined us once before and shall henceforth be know as TriC. We did a loop out to Fairyland for coffee and back – and as you can see we managed to enlarge the loop quite a bit, by including Nyland on the way out, and Shapwick/Ashcott on the way back. It was, not to put too fine a point on it, glorious out there. Warm and sunny, with a fairly low eejot quotient, and a wind that was more cooling than irritating. You really couldn’t ask for nicer 🙂
Glastonbury was up and running – I think the sun brings them out too. Many multi-coloured folk living up to expectations. We were treated to some very Christian singing too, although bearing in mind how much God apparently loves us, you’d have thought the songs would be more cheerful and that they’d look more happy about it! I think they need to work on their marketing strategy…*grin*.
Given that GB and I are supposed to be taking it easy before Monday’s event, and TriC was a little slower than last time, we weren’t pushing it too much for most of the ride. G stands for Group and we made an effort to stay toGether. However once she’d peeled off to go home, the lads hurtled off like greyhounds out of the gate! I didn’t even try to keep up for most of that, but I did get to take the lead from the bottom of Rug Hill to Cheddar and I pushed for all I was worth…well, I could hear the lads freewheeling behind me! *grin*. It was fun though…and as you can see from the avs, we weren’t hanging around. I felt positively capable 🙂
Cycling time: 2:42:23
Distance: 44.90 miles
Avs: 16.6 mph
ODO: 8006 miles
As you can see the “new” bike has now done over 8000 miles which is kinda cool. Gotta love figures. Bearing in mind all that has been done and is to be done to it, I think the only fully original part to remain will be the frame! To continue my shopping spree, yesterday I ordered a new Topeak Large Wedge Saddle Bag to replace the current rather tatty looking one, and also a Topeak top tube bag to hold all my bars and things for events. Consider it a treat for the bike for doing so well 🙂 My birthday money has now well and truly run out – but I’ve made it go a long way!
And on the progress front, my knee seems to be doing quite well, and I’ve been nailing right hand bends a lot better of late. Not all of them by any means, but definitely better than I was. Progress all ’round 🙂