speccy1
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Lovely!!I always wanted to cycle down from Hebden Bridge to Coventry to visit my family, but I didn't feel able to do it while my dad was still alive because he would have moaned on and on about how 'stupid' it was, how I was 'worrying' my mother sick, and so on ...
When I did finally do it, 4 years after he died, I didn't tell my mum that I was doing it - I let her think that I was coming down by train. 141 miles later, I turned up feeling no ill effects other than a sore bum and being somewhat hungry. Even then, she worried about me riding back a week later. I had to promise her that I would catch the train somewhere if I got tired!
What really bugged me was that my dad used to take my mum out on the back of his motorbike when they first got married, and one of his favourite stories was how they once got from Kenilworth to Coventry in 3.5 minutes - a distance of around 5.5 miles! So much for not taking unnecessary risks ...
Well done on the 141 miles though