Had an optometrist appointment early in the afternoon. Shame, because it was pretty decent weather. But I was ready to go by 14:45 or so. Wanted to do at least 50 klicks.
I checked the Boardman in the garage. Front tyre with new inner tube still fully inflated. I was only doing a short ride. Surely an ideal opportunity to test the newly adjusted front hub and new inner tube? Possibly, but having suffered a flat tyre on its two previous rides, I just couldn’t face it today. I took the X.
I was determined to do something a bit different and I just followed my nose, trying to make navigational choices I wouldn’t usually think of. So I went up through Swannington, then took a left along Limby Hall Lane, which is a route I used to take when I first had the hybrid, before I started cycling more regularly. Nostalgia! I hadn’t been along there in years. That took me to Coleorton. From there I went up toward Ashby and after that I just sort of gravitated into doing a Twycrosser, except that I took a long detour on the way up through Nailstone and Ellistown.
I wouldn’t normally do a Twycrosser with the wind coming from the north but I wasn’t really bothered by it on the way up. Maybe a lesson not to be too anal about it on a shorter ride.
Back on 60.90km, about two hours after sunset. Not too cold. Nice run out.