Misery sho’ does love company!  Both GB and I agreed that if we hadn’t been meeting each other this morning, both of us would have wimped out in favour of activities that involved staying in the warm and dry.  In his case that would have meant staying bed.  Being at least partially insane, I’d have gone to the gym.  As it is, both of us could be found in the Square in the rain at 8:30am wondering who’s idea it had been.  Sadly the fault is all mine.  Mea culpa and all that.

GB was route master and led us out on a zig zag route designed to avoid as much of the strong gusty NE wind as possible, as well as wet gritty down hills.  Yes – if you hadn’t gathered already, it was wet, windy and, as my feet were soon to bear testament, cold!  Naturally in those conditions there was nothing for it other than to visit the seaside.  There was always the vain hope that normal sensible people would not be visiting Weston in such conditions and it would therefore be bearable to cycle through and, to be fair, it wasn’t bad.  The last field on the left in Uphill was covered with bluebells – I believe the cliched way of describing it would be to say carpeted with them – which was the visual highlight of the day.   Which reminds me, it must be time to do the annual Ebbor Gorge walk.

So, it was pretty much the normal seaside loop.  Having set off so early we were too early for coffee stops anywhere, opting instead just to get the ride over and done with really.  I was clearly a little under-dressed for the conditions since otherwise my feet might have stayed with me.  I sure am glad I opted for longs though, and the windproof top did the trick.  And, thanks to good company, I didn’t feel miserable which I’m fairly sure I would have done on my own.  The actual mechanics of the ride were pretty good – the bike was still feeling very smooth, me, my legs and my lungs were feeling pretty much in tune, and it was still nicer to be out on the bike than not to be, if that makes any sense 🙂

Cycling time: 1:58:17
Distance: 29.67 miles
Avs: 15.0 mph
ODO: 4078 miles

I’ve been back for 20 minutes or so, and I can just about wiggle my toes now.  Methinks it’s time for a nice warm bath to go with my nice warm cup of tea 🙂