I don’t usually go out on Mondays.  In fact it’s often my day off.  But since I had a day off yesterday, two in a row seemed a tad excessive.  Besides which after all the eating at the weekend, and general lack of decent nutrition over the last few weeks, I think I have some compensating to do.  On top of all that the weather forecast was reasonable (they lied!) and I felt like it would be a good ride.

And in some respect it was.  My legs were well in, it was feeling pretty easy, the roads were quiet, and up until nearly the end there wasn’t much wind.  However there was grey blanket cloud.  Which got lower and lower until it became cycling through cloud – aka drizzle.  When it lifted, it moved on to proper rain instead!  I nearly wimped out and cut my route short, but I stuck to the plan – I’m stubborn like that.

I only did the usual kind of loop.  Even taking the basic loop and adding extras like Burtle and Nyland I was hard pushed to get much over 2 hours though, which is a continual problem.  If you get faster, your normal routes get quicker!

Cycling time: 2:14:26
Distance: 35.06 miles
Avs: 15.6 mph
ODO: 2261 miles

I was fairly fast, so that’s good.  I was a bit twitched by the wet roads – I’m working on the skittish thing, but my bike is definitely less sticky in wet weather which really doesn’t help.  Still, I stayed on, and as I’ve said before, any ride where I stay on the bike is a good one! 😀

In other news I saw a physio today – conveniently my local surgery seems to have one now.  Turns out he cycles – how handy is that?!  He’s given me some exercises for the knee and the shoulder.  Broken bones, or bits thereof, take longer to heal than you’d think apparently.  And knees take ages too as that particular bit of muscle has a crappy blood supply so even with the cleat changes having helped it won’t heal overnight.  I think I’m just getting old and starting to fall apart *grin*.