This year has been so odd that I'd struggle to pick out a best ride. Usually I'd probably choose one of my century rides but none of them has particularly stood out this time. There were plenty of memorable rides during the year though so here are a few snapshots:
Shrewsbury had some bad flooding early in the year and I did a tour round the town to document it.
On a Lake District holiday in February with Doug and
@gavgav we hired bikes and had an "interesting" ride, starting off in sunshine, climbing up past the snow line in Grizedale then getting drenched with rain later in the trip. Never again on bike without mudguards!
During the Lakes holiday Covid 19 had been something on the news that was happening to other people in faraway places. By the time I did my March century ride to Lake Vyrnwy it had reached the UK but we weren't to worry as long as we washed our hands.
A matter of days after this ride the country was in lockdown.
Fortunately we had some fabulous weather during the lockdown so even though I chose to cut down the length of my rides I could still ride almost every day. What was better was when the restrictions eased and I got some nice rides in the company of my brother.
It was nice when I started to feel able to do some rides further afield again. I'd deliberately stayed away from some of my favourite places as they were attracting too many daytrippers.
As restrictions eased further
@gavgav and I even braved a pub stop on a trip to the Stiperstones and the Long Mynd.
Edit to add: I forgot to include this one:
An evening ride that was quite memorable for good and bad reasons. The good was that it was a lovely warm evening with a low lying mist forming to give an atmospheric look as seen here and a nice sunset as the ride went along. The bad was that as I rode into the darkness on my way home I killed a rabbit which ran headlong into the road, hit my front wheel then was squashed by the back one.
