I wanted to do 40 or so after work today. I’d felt tired all day, and a bit debilitated from incautious cocktail consumption at a restaurant yesterday. Nonetheless I manfully mounted the Boardman wearing warm clothing and a woolly hat at 16:45.
I was, as is far too frequently the case at the moment, on call. I decided I’d do the southbound route as far as Kirkby Mallory, then west to Sutton Cheney, then I’d wing it from there. However, I didn’t do that. I got cold feet (only metaphorical, fortunately) going along Kirkby Lane, starting to worry about being too far from base while on call. So I did a U turn and came back mostly the same way (I detoured Bagworth again like I did on Saturday).
A couple of miles from home I was still wondering how I was going to extend the ride to 40 miles, but shortly thereafter the Cycling Inverse Square Law kicked in, the force of attraction being exerted by the prospect of an earlier dinner (and possibly a beer) being inversely proportional to the square of the distance from my house. I came straight back home from Ibstock, and finished on 22.87 miles.
However – if it’s not raining, I’ll do another 20 tomorrow.