Too hot for cycling really but I want to get 600 miles in before July and it seems rude to waste all those hours of daylight after work. So I left work early and set off on the X.
I’d only gone a couple of miles before I realised I hadn’t brought a pump and although I don’t usually, I started to feel faintly paranoid. So I decided to do a sort of 10 mile lap round Packington and Heather, have a quick pit stop at the garage and set off again. I did that. I gave the tyres a quick seeing to with the track pump and picked up a mini pump, then set off again – this time on the usual eastbound route, out toward Cotes.
Quite tiring pedalling in the bright sunshine and stupid heat but a headwind from the east took some of the unpleasantness out of it. I was enjoying myself regardless. Got as far as the natural burial ground a mile or two after Cotes, then turned back. But I came a longer way back, through Diseworth and down Top Brand – as much as anything to avoid the tedium of the long pedal along Ashby Road.
I saved the track from my G-Shock to the Casio Moves app, but it hasn’t made it to Strava yet. Whether that’s the Casio servers (I suspect it is) or the phone or Strava I’m not sure, but anyway I was able to get this image from the app. That’s all I’ve got to show for it, but I’m more about the spreadsheet than Strava anyway.
I’ll remember not to use the G-Shock for the Strava challenges.
A rare opportunity to use my Magnum enormo-bidon, and I’d almost drained it by the time I got back on 44.39 miles. And that’s 503 this month, 3031 this year. Nice to have done 3000 before the half-way point of the year. Not going on holidays has helped, but I won’t have that advantage for long.
Took this pic a couple of miles from home, near a pub I’m hoping to frequent again before too long.
