My ‘official’ target for June, as decreed by my spreadsheet, is 573 miles. However I was hoping to have clocked up 600 by the time July kicks in on Wednesday, having done only 503 as of this morning. So I wanted to do at least 50 today.
Mild weather with a possibility of rain in the afternoon, and a powerful wind blowing from the west. Not the best weather for it really, but I wheeled the X out of the garage at 11:05.
One of the as-yet unconquered counties of England is Gloucestershire, which would require a round trip of about 115 miles. I wasn’t going to do that today, but thought to do the first 25 miles or so, then turn back. Most of that 25 miles is a familiar route going south, to Stoney Stanton.
So I did that. Unfortunately though the last 5 of those 25 miles would have involved riding right into the teeth of the wind, following a right turn after Sapcote – so after less than a mile of that I took a right turn and began exploring a bit. I found my way back to Stoney Stanton, but took a different route back to Earl Shilton from there. After Kirkby Mallory I decided to come back up through Bosworth rather than Newbold and Ellistown. I pushed the mile tally up a bit by continuing up through Newton Burgoland where I rested at a bench and took the following pic, and all the way up to Ashby.
Home on 51.51 miles.
Very changeable weather, I got rained on a couple of times but the sun came out a few times as well. I had warm sunshine for the last 30 minutes or so which dried the bike off nicely.
The Casio servers have deigned to pass the activity through to Strava this time. They still haven’t bothered with the last one.
https://www.strava.com/activities/3684389852
555 this month, not sure I’ll get to 600 in June but I should certainly manage 573.