Well today we managed an hour before it rained.  Which is possibly a miracle, or at least feels so of late.  As I’ve been a bit under the weather this week, and have a sportive on Sunday, George and I just did an easy couple of hours on the Levels this morning, taking advantage of the fact that they’re not called that for nothing.  I felt surprisingly good, which hopefully bodes well for Sunday’s event, and even with the crappy weather it was still good to be out there.  The forecast for Sunday is almost identical to what we got today, so I’m even pretty much sure what I’m going to be wearing.  Exactly the same as today!

There’s not much to tell you about the ride really.  It looks like this.  Even though I was visiting, having only decided to do so at very short notice, the builders of Wells had not had enough warning, and had only managed to scaffold a very small part of the Cathedral.

Look, on the LHS, just there…I’m sure it’ll spread, scaffolding always seems to.  Just in case you think I actually cycle on my own and make up my cycling friends to make myself feel better, here’s George, resplendent in Tor 2000 kit, and no doubt thrilled to be the victim of my photographic zeal again.

Actually that’s one of the reasons the new ipod shuffle has no name.  I nearly christened it, in the same way as the Garmin became Bella, although that wasn’t entirely my fault 😉 .  But then I realised that naming everything was possibly a little tragic and that I am lucky enough to actually have real friends with real names so I probably didn’t need to go there *grin*.

On the way back we even happened across a sign to point us in the right direction.  Or the wrong direction.  Depends on how you look on it.  It was the right direction for going home.  But the wrong direction if headwinds aren’t really your thing.  And please don’t tell me they’re good training – I’ve heard it all before.  To be fair, though it was annoying, George was finding it a little more so than me, as I’ve had quite a lot of practice at head down slogging into the wind of late!

So we rode.  We talked.  We got rained on.  And we followed the two hour rule, and even made up the difference lacking from Wednesday’s ride.  As rides go it could have been a lot worse 🙂

Time to throw the cycling kit in the machine – again.  The bike can be washed tomorrow – time to “reward” a child into doing it methinks.  I was trying to pack all my stuff away neatly, as you do (well, sometimes), but I was slightly hindered by a new and unique Giro helmet taking up space in my helmet bag…

To be fair, it was a perfect fit.  Maybe she’s a MagnifiCat? 😉  *grin*.

Cycling time: 2:11:35 hrs
Distance: 34.84 miles
Avs: 15.9 mph.
ODO: 13250 miles