After the promising start to the week, the weather turned even nastier, wetter and windier. Parts of the Lake District, were I was on Tuesday have had severe flooding. Several bridges are either down or damaged.
I rode in on Wednesday in appalling weather, soaked to the skin when I got to work. Even on a radiator, my stuff didn’t dry out. It wasn’t too bad on Thursday, I got in and home relatively dry. But it was very windy. Karl rang me to see if we were going on our normal Thursday night ride, his car was being rocked back and forth by the wind. But we went anyway. It was a great ride out to the pub, 30mph wind on you back feels good. The ride back wasn’t so good, 10 miles of head on wind. I was on my fixed. I was knackered. Friday, I went in the car.
Karl had some friends over this weekend and yesterday we went for a ride. It was still very wet and windy. We rode out to the Cafe de Lune at Conder Green where we stopped for a egg, bacon and sausage barm. Delicious. We then set out across the wind, heading for Scorton, the Priory and a tea cake. However, when we got there, no one wanted to stop. We decided to press on to another cafe at Catforth, but by then the weather was awful, we were knackered and didn’t stop again. 50 miles of wet and windy, with no tea cakes. I don’t think my body can cope.
This morning we did a dozen miles on the tandem, just got caught in the rain on the way home.
Miles for the week – 145
Total miles so far – 3154
Cheers
Tim
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