I took advantage of the forecast and used it as an excuse to take the gravel bike out and detour by the secondary A road to grab a tile and avoid a twisty descent through the woods on the country lane. I started of in beautiful sunshine and it was warming up nicely. Climbed the big hill on its single carriageway (with passing places) road that used as a rat run. The rats were very patient though and it was getting sunnier still. The forecast was wrong I thought.
Then I turned to the village by the 'A' road, freezing fog. The forecast was right. The garmin probably recorded those temperatures round there.
The A road was a lot better than I expected, a lot less busy than I thought it would be and the majority of drivers very patient. There was a couple of moments when I thought, they were going fast! Sure enough the Varia recorded two at 70mph.
(btw the cars in the first 12mins, circa 40cars never actually passed me, that was when I was cycling on the cycleways next to the dual carriageways out of town).
When I got to town I bypassed the usual log jam by using a bridleway.
I wish I had took a selfie when I got to the office, the beard was solid ice
Strangely I wasn't cold the new mtb shoes had done their job
Having took the gravel bike in on the way home I took the bridleway through the woods and nicely got through that just as light was fading (I had a head torch but never needed it
I was tempted by another bridleway through a field which would have skipped the twisty descent on the single carriage road but light was fading and I decided getting on a crowded commuter train with any more muck probably wasn't advisable
