A lovely day!

A chilly start but the sun soon warmed me up. Nice easy spin in on the road bike. After work I headed to a local pub with Leon for a couple of lovely pints and some peanuts while he waited for his wife to pick him up so that they could start their journey to France. Headed home in lovely evening sunshine with some great tunes from my MP3 player. Splendid.

96km|3h20m

Change of plans

Just about to set off this morning when I noticed that one of the bolts holding my rack on had sheared off. Took the bike back inside, transferred contents of pannier to my courier bag and jumped on the fixie. I was already running a bit late so rode quite hard just in case I had any mechanicals along the way. As it was I got there in plenty of time with slightly sore legs :)
Lovely sunny ride home this evening, rode pretty hard again and I think the combined time was my 2nd fastest. Just eating a big risotto to refuel me now :)

96km|3h18m

Uneventful

Nothing much to report today. Rode the fixie, overtook a few other cyclists. Chain is really slack now, keep forgetting to tension it. Must do it before I next ride it.
No work this weekend so I'm making the most of it by riding in the peaks with SteveM, Dave360 and crazy legs tomorrow followed by a garden party for Ed's 40th in Hebden Bridge with a social ride on Sunday. Should be good.

96km|3h28m

Drowned

Torrential rain and flooded roads for the ride in this morning. I was actually quite enjoying it until some twat in a merc drove really quickly through a flooded bit when overtaking me. Being hit by a 6ft wall of water whilst cycling is not pleasant.
Leon arrived at work just as wet as me but we managed to get stuff dry with the use of a portable heater (probably doubling out electricity use for the day!). Nice steady ride home in mostly dry conditions followed by a large plate of lasagne and a bottle of Badger Poacher's Choice :)

96km|3h37m

Stupidly windy

Stupidly windy ride today. Stopped me almost dead a couple of times! Super fast when I had the wind behind me though! That's the 2nd 200 mile week I've done this month and it's also a record month in terms of distance with maybe another couple of rides to come. June will see less riding as I have a week off to go to Le Mans :)

96km|3h20m

Edit : I've now spent a whole week in the saddle this year :)

Well it had to happen eventually

First run-in with an cock from Leigh on the way home this evening. Jon has been reporting run-ins with them for years so now that my commute takes me through Leigh it was only a matter of time before I encountered one. Guy in an open topped sports car pulled away from some lights at high speed nearly clipping me before getting stuck in traffic allowing me to have words. He just sat the revving his engine loudly. I wish I had some sticky energy drink in my drinks bottle so that I could have made a mess of his interior.
Anyway, apart from that I had a very nice ride.
Oh, a quick update on the fast ride I did on Tuesday - legs were perfectly fine the next morning :)

96km|3h23m

That'll probably hurt tomorrow

Rode the road bike into work today. Had to carry stuff in which slowed me down a bit but was still the fastest I'd got in before. For the return journey I left my bag at work and just carried pump, tubes, multitool, food, keys and music. Did the first few kms with Leon before we went out separate ways. Found myself riding at over 20mph without really feeling it so decided to see how hard I could push myself. I got back in 83mins! That's an average of just over 21mph. I expect my legs to be a bit sore in the morning :)

96km|3h3m