Warm and sunny, upto 22°C, dry with a brisk southerly.

This trip marks some interesting health issues. I had my second Astra-Zenica jab the morning that I drove up here. Like last time, I had a head-ache over night and a mild aching feeling all over. On the morning I started walking, I too 2 ibuprofen.

Anyway, I pressed on without entirely losing that side-effect feeling. The route is quite long, half of it is in farmland. There was a problem on the Pennine Journey leg with herds of cattle. I got encircled in one field and had to vault over a fence. That got the adrenaline up, I headed back and along another track to rejoin the road.

It’s fortunate that I did because it soon became obvious that the next field was filled with cows, this time with calves. I’m glad that I didn’t get stuck there with only a large field of cows ony escape route.

I suspect that I’ve had a mild dose of long-covid since Christmas. It’s no more that a low-level can’t be bothered feeling. Normally, when I skip a bike ride, I’d get the agitated fizzy legs feeling; not so this year.

After this trip, the old feeling has come back. I’m stronger and feel more ambitious physically. There are reports that discuss the possibility that a vaccine can switch off long-covid