Much cooler day today, not much of a wind, dry, cloudy. Wanted to do about 30 after work, ideally. Normally the Planet X would have been the instrument of choice for those conditions, but I took the Tricross out of pure idleness. It was closer to the garage door.
Set off with no clear plan, found myself doing the southbound route. But I kept on keepin’ on past Kirkby Lane, thinking to continue to Desford. I haven’t been there for a while; it was part of the now-deprecated Northants route. At Desford I saw a sign for Newtown Unthank, and thought – why not? From Unthank I took a road signposted to Thornton, more familiar territory. I thought of continuing on to Markfield but got cold feet about being on call too far away from a computer, so I followed a sign to Bagworth instead.
After that I took a left along Wood Road on a whim, hoping that getting semi-lost might notch up the distance a bit, but I was in Ibstock in no time and just came home the usual way from there.
Nice run out, but only 24.49 miles.