I’ve been waiting for the after-effects from Sunday’s sportive to cut in.  Monday saw the odd ache in my neck and shoulders, but that was all.  Tuesday I was expecting DOMS to cut in.  Nothing.  So I did a workout to check that out.  Still nothing.  I guess I’m still waiting.  Which meant I had no excuse to not go and cycle up hills with Alan as planned today.  B*gger 😉  Although I did tweak the proposed route so as to avoid going up Burrington Combe for the third time in a week and Old Bristol Hill for the second!  There are plenty of other hills around here after all, no?  Pretty much all of which I know, but Alan doesn’t, so there was some novelty value in introducing him to some of them.  I’m a cycling tour guide 😉

Which meant going up Shipham Hill, with Longbottom & the nasty kick up to Tynings Farm.  Up the A39 from Chewton Mendip to the Wells aerial.  And finally up Deerleap.

Which meant going down to East Harptree.  Down through the Horringtons.  And of course down Cheddar Gorge, not that my Garmin recognises that *sigh*.  (You’ll notice I have no qualms about repeating the same downhill more than once in a week though 😉 )

Which included a coffee stop at the Rock Cake Café where apparently opting for a Cornish pasty instead of a cake wasn’t a wise move, not that you could spot Alan’s lack of sugar rush as he danced up Deerleap 😉

It was all done in beautiful winter sunshine.  Just as cold and windy as Sunday, but far prettier.  Some of it was hard work.  Some of it wasn’t.  But I kept on moving 🙂

I do do hills.  Sometimes 😉

Cycling time: 2:57
Distance: 40.2 miles
Avg: 13.5 mph
ODO: 7782 miles