Hot and sunny out there, this afternoon. I particularly wanted to do a Twycross Bypasser, because I wanted to take some landscape pics, in pursuance of my hobby of identifying distant objects. To this end I took a decent zoom compact as well as my phone. I’m particularly interested in a pointy little hill, just visible from Orton Lane in the right conditions, which I think is near Dudley, nearly 30 years away.
I found the road closed by a metal barrier near Warton. A charity run was taking place, with people dressed in pale blue Cancer Research shirts running towards me. I told one of the stewards who was handing out bottles of water that I’d weave through them carefully and she just asked me to take it easy. I was tempted to ask her for a bottle of water, but I didn’t. I did run out of fluids on this ride which is unusual, and I certainly enjoyed my post-ride beer straight out of the fridge.
I pressed on past the barrier and ploughed through the oncoming runner traffic, deliberately and slowly. A lot of them were walking, anyway. Don’t blame them, it was bloody hot.
I took this pic with my compact, to be fair I think the phone performs just as well in these conditions.
Annoyingly I forgot to turn the bike computer back on after one of the stops so I had to repair the track using https://www.routemaster.app/.
Very glad I did the Wales trip last weekend, would have been cruel and unusual in today’s weather.
34.24 miles, that’s 249 this month. I want to get to 500 this month if I can.