I’d been thinking of doing about 40 after work today to take advantage of the ongoing lovely weather. I can’t (or shouldn’t) go far tomorrow, because I’m on call.
But ‘er indoors persuaded me that it might be nice to have a drink in the garden so I did a shortish one, so I could be back by 6-ish.
I performed a fairly standard Twycross Bypasser. Just lovely out there. Less windy than the last few days.
Took the road to Bosworth from Sheepy. Usually I take a left to Carlton along there but today it was closed for some reason. So I pushed on to Bosworth and came up the usual way from there.
Definitely more traffic this last week or two.
I saw a little girl on a bike near Barton. I’d guess she was about nine years old (I’m not good with kids’ ages, never had any myself). She had all the lycra gear on. She was riding a scaled-down proper road bike with derailleurs and drop bars. It looked much too big for her but she had no trouble overtaking me. I thought of the decades of cycling she has ahead of her, if she keeps her interest in it. And if she’s still riding when she’s my age, I wonder what her bike will look like? And the roads, and the technology?
https://www.strava.com/activities/3346647528
26.80 miles.
More tomorrow. A real shame that I’m on call, because the rain’s making a comeback next month and tomorrow’s weather looks even better.