Thanks to ever one today for making me feel very welcome I had my eyes opened today but I stuck with it longest and hardest ride for me so far 46 miles
Nice to meet you, Shaun. Likewise Matthew, Mick the Quick (worra legend - he's beaten Tommy Simpson and Beryl Burton has stayed at his house!), Rob and Dennis. And thanks Pubbers for a nice route. If a trifle hilly and with lots of lying about hills! TMN would have killed you. The descent from the pub was a winner, but I was feeling the uphills in the heat, what with the tired mid-Welsh legs this week and the sub-optimal bike. Great cafe and nice boozer - but if I'd started on the beers it would have all gone tits up. Literally. The ride back to Shrewsbury was fine but there was a bit of a headwind, and by the time I was near the end of the last leg home from Knighton - 2 x 2-mile climbs with a 2-mile descent in the middle - I was counting down the tenths-of-a-mile in my granniest gear. So a ton for the day for me, and only 30 of it on the flat. Actually it was about 99.7, but there was no way I was fannying around to round it up. All the animals in my care seem to have coped for the day without me, although the dogs did guilt-trip me for some extra treats. I've just remembered I am cycling to Brecon in the morning, and then on to either Swansea or Abergavenny. And I call this a holiday??? Sorry that LD, Banjo, Crax and co couldn't make it.