Shepshed

A decent day – cold, a little blowy but dry , save a few puddles. I’d been feeling under the weather for the last couple of days, but wanted to get out and do at least 20 or so. It’s been a fairly dismal cycling month (and year) so far due to awful weather.

I started off going up through Belton, thinking of going up to Diseworth then back down Top Brand, but on a whim I decided to take a right to Shepshed along Hallamford Road. I did this about four years ago – it must have been four years ago because I was listening to a radio programme about George Michael, who’d just died – and promised myself I’d do it again, but never did.

However this time when I got into Shepshed I took a left to Hathern, along a road I’d never tried before. Quite nice, nothing special but interesting to do something new. This took me the A6, a few hundred metres south of the usual road junction I take on the eastbound route. So I thought I’d take a quick opportunity to go east into Nottinghamshire for a bit, and tick another neighbouring country box.

Back through Long Whatton, Diseworth, and down Top Brand. Quite a nice run out, 27.07 miles.