A couple of mates and I decided to meet up for an early ride this morning due to other stuff happening later in the day. My alarm went off at the stupid time of 05:30!!
Porage and coffee were consumed, and I rode off to our meeting place for 07:00 with ice on the car windows, but no frozen puddles to go skating on.
07:00 came and went... No-one was there. Never mind, thought I, I'll go for a pedal around until the arrived. Re-reading the texts, we were due to meet at 07:30... Gol'durn it, I could have stayed in bed for another half an hour!!
Still, it gave me time to take a few pics of the Marin near Chapel Brampton station on the disused section of track...
Once we'd ridden near to Market Harborough, we stopped off at the Waterloo Café for a snack.
Smashin' bacon sarnie and a coffee, made all the tastier as it wasn't my turn to pay
From the café stop, we rode south, with the slight breeze in our favour, via the old railway tunnels, and stopped for a bit to check out the architecture on top of the arches over the tunnel entrance.
After a bit, we headed back across to Brixworth and Pitsford Res where we split up and went our separate ways home.
I finished on 45 miles, which is a tad hard going on the Marin with most of it on trails rather than tarmac. Nice to not have to scrape mud of the bike, just wash the dust off the bike, dry it and give it a lube.
A most enjoyable morning out in the Spring sunshine, and back in time to have a snooze on the settee for an hour this afternoon
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