Some people out there would like to know if our esteemed leader David Cameron is a man or a mouse.
Jason Segel wants to know if he’s a man or a muppet.
I want to know if Gary is a man or a machine!

Thanks to the joys of last minute social media communication I ended up going for a ride with him this morning.  Allegedly he’s lost his mojo.  Supposedly he was going to be taking it easy.  Hrrrumph.  Clearly we are not of one blood, he and I.

Yes, it was flat.  But that doesn’t entirely explain it.  Man, is he ever fast!  I kept up.  Just.  Mostly I sucked wheel.  I’d have taken a turn at the front if I was capable…but I wasn’t!  He’s relentless.  All that moves is his legs and all that hardy Northerner power just goes straight into making him go forward…at considerable speed!  Jealous, moi?! 😉

Today’s view mostly looked like this:

We’d done twenty miles.  We had, according to the route he sent out last night, about that to do again.  I had an hour to get back in.  In pointing this out I was suggesting that maybe we needed to find a more direct route home, or at least I did.  However it being due to be fairly flat Gary reckoned it was doable…  Apparently what I was actually suggesting was that we just go faster.  Right?  No!  So he speeded up!  Sped up?  Got faster!  I wasn’t aware faster existed!  *grin*.  At least the headwind had turned into a tailwind by now, so I had one less challenge to face…

Our route looked like this and we were back in the Square with 15 minutes to spare.  Impressive stuff, and I’d never have managed it on my own.  Look at that average speed!  I don’t think that’s a man missing his mojo, do you?  Remind me to think twice before doing that again! 😉

Cycling time: 2:01:27 hrs
Distance: 37.35 miles
Avs: 18.5 mph.
ODO: 100.02 miles

Somewhere out there GB is riding up silly hills.  On his shiny steed with fancy kit, which all put together probably cost considerably more than this, which would probably go up mountains faster 😉  It’s practically got his name on it! *grin*.