Light winds today and coming from the east; an opportunity for an Eastwell Fondo. I got up fairly early despite a fitful sleep and after fuelling up with toast and porridge, I was rolling by 10AM.
Very slight drizzle for the first hour or so, not enough to make the bike, the roads or myself damp, or even to be particularly irritating. It was a nice, dry autumnal day after that and the sun even came out for a while.
Had to take a longer route out through Coalville than I normally would as one of the roads was closed for a Remembrance Day parade. I saw a lad (well he was under 40 anyway) in a smart army uniform with a string of six medals on.
Went all the way to Eastwell (sometimes I stop at the crossroads just west of the village) and took the turn for Stathern, for a bit. I turned back and came the same way home (apart from the detour in Coalville).
A lady driving a car at a junction in Thringstone beeped and waved at me as I passed, appearing to recognise me. It wasn’t mutual but I waved back pleasantly anyway. One of ‘er indoors’ friends possibly.
No particularly interesting sport on 5 Live so I listened mostly to the Reacher audiobook. I think I must have got through about five hours of it. Nearing the (no doubt) brutal climax now. The bad guys have crossed a line in a big way and they’ll be paying for it soon.
I did try LBC for a while but I was getting really bloody annoyed with the number of people phoning in who didn’t seem to understand the difference between MPs having a second job and receiving wads of used £10 notes in brown paper envelopes. So I didn’t bother with it for long.
Back about 15 minutes after sunset on 65.59, really a rather nice run out. 221 this month, 4539 this year.