Rain in the morning but a lovely sunny, dry afternoon with the wind coming from the west. Usually I don’t ride on consecutive days but since I only did 35 yesterday I thought I’d take advantage of the weather to do a similar distance today.
A simple plan, to do about 17 miles of the Lower Westbound Route then come back the same way.
Somehow, I missed the left turn for Lullington. I only realised I’d done this when the Twelve House failed to materialise after 12 miles. The Twelve House is a name I’ve given to a rather grand, white-painted colonial style house at Lullington that’s exactly 12 miles from home by the usual route.
I wasn’t bothered though. I was still on a familiar route that would take me to Walton on Trent. But I decided not to take the turn for Walton after Rosliston. I thought I’d keep going and go exploring for a bit. After about 16 miles I found myself in the outskirts of Burton upn Trent, so I turned back. Nice to do a new bit of road and it was quite pleasant, but possibly not that useful.
From Coton I followed a sign to Lullington, to reunite myself with the usual route. And after Measham, I decided to come back through Packington instead of Heather.
Listened to the last hour of Slow Horses. All the loose ends are tied up very neatly if a bit implausibly. And there’s a nice cold little twist at the end. Then I continued my odyssey through the Rolling Stones’ studio album catalogue with Goat’s Head Soup – probably their best album.
Back on 35.12, 311 this month. Looking at the forecast, I’ll be lucky to get that much higher than 400.