Today’s plan, again, was to do a fondo. I must have a think about whether I want to spend every available dry day cycling. But anyway today, that’s what I did.
The wind was coming from the south so I set off at about 1010 on a remix of the southbound route. Last time I went down that way, on Monday, I had to contend with extended roadworks and traffic lights near Bagworth. I don’t mind waiting at the lights so much, but the road was covered in dust and mud. So this time I went down through Heather and the various villages to Bosworth, before joining the usual route at Kirkby Mallory, via Cadeby.
I went down as far as the end of Station Road, a couple of km north of Welford and the Northamptonshire border. I decided to come back up via the old route through Husbands Bosworth and Shearsby, with the twist that I would cut across west to the new route from Foston – to avoid the nasty traffic at the bottom of Leicester. I’ve tried this once before and made a mess of it. This time I managed to take the route I intended and yep, it works pretty well. After rejoining the main route at Broughton, I mostly came back the same way.
Back on 110.45km and that was October’s 7th fondo, a new monthly record. It’s quite likely that I’ll get another one in before November, as well.
Pretty gloomy when I set off, and cold. But the sun emerged in the afternoon and in the end, it was a very nice day. I did get a couple of minutes of drizzle near Foston, though. Seemed very incongruous, so much so that I thought I was being sprayed by a badly aligned windscreen washer at first.
I listened to Bowie’s Hunky Dory and 5 Live (mostly politics coverage).