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I've got the T-shirt :sweat:

I did have a feeling those shadows would confuse... mid morning I guess, in April. Apart from downhill, I've no idea which direction Alex321 is heading.

I made a silly slip... I didn't notice that it was a Google photo so I was judging direction from shadows that I thought were on a picture taken an hour or two before sunset! I thought the road was heading southish.

Ashton Road. That 2nd photo is rather a large clue - City Centre via Canal...

correct! Over to you :)

Train to Southport from Bolton to ride back via Velo Café in Croston which was packed. Set off in cloud and mist with arm warmers and gilet. After Croston the sun appeared and the Wahoo registered 26°C at one point, never thought this morning...

Ha ha - Google has just done its Big Brother thing... Yesterday, I searched for sterile banana information using the Google widget on my phone. Just now, Google showed me this on the YouTube app on my TV!

That's a huge clue! It looks like it is where I thought it must be, but I didn't spot it yesterday. Someone will probably have got it by 10 pm, which is when I can get back to searching. If not, I am sure that I will track it down then. Now...

I checked that the other day as the answer to a cryptic crossword clue. Interesting Brian Cox fact of the day... He was the keyboard player for D-Ream!

My interesting fact for the day is...... The word/name Acme as in eg the Acme Glue company as used by Wyle Coyote is a genuine name and comes from the word Akme, Greek for 'peak' or 'zenith'. It was popularised by businessmen in the 19th century.

I don't understand all the hate for Brian Cox. He does a good job of trying to make physics and astronomy accessible and that has to be a good thing. Incidentally, he was a postdoc when I was doing my PhD in Manchester. We were in different...

One of the Apolo missions performed the experiment on the Moon (saves having to pump out the air in the Ohio chamber) View: https://youtu.be/Oo8TaPVsn9Y?is=K2xe2S9wZ4heC53O

Blimey - your heart still beats fast! The maximum that I have dared to push mine to in the past couple of years is 165 bpm. I prefer to keep it below 145 bpm most of the time with occasional bursts up to 155-160 on short, steep ramps.

I'm quite enjoying reading about everyone's exploits in this challenge, but it is making me feel a bit inadequate. I'm not riding as much this year, but just concentrating on finding new places to ride so as to keep it interesting. Didn't want to...

Slight error with this one - I was looking at a map for something else the other day and it turns out that the outward leg to Thetford was actually in Suffolk, albeit by a few hundred yards for most of it being south of the Rivers Thet & Little...