10°C, light wind and some rain.
What is the word for the times when you clean out some empty bags from your locker and you find a pack of gorgeous chocolate?
This bar is a little known gem. Far better taste than equivalent bar from up-market shops. Here is one little pleasure that punctuates my day.
9°C, mostly dry.
Two weeks until my 50th birthday. So how best to mark the occasion? Best idea so far- do one activity each month for the year. Taster days, like the velodrome in Manchester, a training course at Plas Y Brenin near Capel Curig in Snowdonia.
This is the Raleigh cross bike. The top tube is almost level which makes it easier to shoulder. I don’t like the outboard rear brake. Besides that, the frame should be good, the wheels even better.
Rode Arrow, tracked with MapMyRide+! Distance: 55.04mi, time: 03:45:58, pace: 4:06min/mi, speed: 14.61mi/h.
http://mapmyride.com/workout/790175641
The bike felt good, despite the heavy winter wheels. Everything ran smoothly, but it was a heavy load to winch up those hills.
Today had bul the vital ingredients, that feeling of one with the machine, fine weather and fitness. Never mind that the average speed was low.
Web research suggests that I may not get a new bike until near the end of the year. The 2014 range gap sold out of the largest frames and the 2015 bikes aren’t available yet. Trek is a name I haven’t looked at seriously yet. The new ranges often feature a black colour scheme.
Below is the River Tame in flood. This loop near Elford floods easily.
12C, light SW, slow moving shower.
Ride Arrow, tracked with MapMyRide+! Distance: 32.27mi, time: 02:10:37, pace: 4:03min/mi, speed: 14.82mi/h.
http://mapmyride.com/workout/783664233
Not a fast ride I admit. A few days ago, I put the winter wheels on. The summer ones are up on a hook until next spring.
Shaggy Inkcap, today.
Micycle 