Another warm, sunny day except for a threat of rain showers at around 4pm. The wind has reverted to a more usual habit of blowing from the south-west; ideal for a Twycrosser or Bypasser. I hadn’t done one for a while so I was very happy to be setting off on my time-honoured after-work route, or a variation of it, in the sunshine. I’d actually been feeling a sort of homesickness to return to those familiar roads.
Would have gone as far as Upper Packington Road at the top but that bit of Ashby Road has been covered in sharp, dusty gravel – so I took a left turn to Packington along Coleorton Lane. Really gross, literally dumped in bloody great heaps. I assume there’s some sort of second phase where they come and sweep away the excess, but who knows?
I avoided the rain, although I could see it troubling the horizon to the north from Norton Lane near Orton.
Detoured through Barton in the Beans after Gibbet Lane.
Nice run out, 34.25 miles and that takes me to 476 this month, 3028 this year.