By which I mean that today’s ride was neither exciting, fast, stunning…but I wasn’t looking for nothing but a good time, and that’s precisely what I had 🙂

I looped round from here to the seaside in clockwise fashion, taking in Loxton, Lympsham, Uphill, WSM, Kewstoke, Sandford and home.  I really wish WSM would get on and finish their promenade works – they’ve been there for ages and must be royally messing with the tourist trade.  And with my cycling!  OK, so I get the pleasure of under/over-taking all the traffic held up by the lights, but I’d just as soon they weren’t there at all.

Having previously not thought there was much moving air around, I discovered that all of the wind was mysteriously at Sand Bay, as the minute I got up to the old pier it hit me…blustery and a tad chilly, but not quite enough to make me put my arms on.  I don’t know which direction it was coming from, but then again, I’m not sure it knew either.  Certainly not from anywhere useful!

It wasn’t as hot and sunny as it has been all ’round really – in fact it was pretty hazy around the edges, and just below warm when the cloud cover thickened.  However that didn’t happen too much, and it was still a lovely ride.  Very fragrant – all the flowers that are in bloom in the verges are kicking out perfume for all their worth in an attempt attract insects so as to self-seed yet more verges.

There are also red-crossed white flags all over the place, blowing around very nicely in today’s wind.  St Christopher’s in pretty Lympsham is very keen that you know that it’s Church of England…*grin*.  You could see the flag flying high from its spire from miles away.  I guess there must be some football of some sort happening somewhere…with the upside that for the next few weeks, if everyone is sitting somewhere watching twenty two men kick a ball around, they won’t be driving on my roads!  That thought is enough to make you want to cheer for the home team.  Well…nearly 😉  Hey, what can I say, football has never been my thing.

Cycling time: 2:08:26
Distance: 33.56 miles
Avs: 15.6 mph
ODO: 4385 miles

As you can see, I’m slower on my own.  Sad isn’t it?  But I think I did ok especially as I wasn’t feeling quite as energetic as sometimes, and I did get to enjoy some good tunes  🙂  I’m hoping to do a longer ride on Friday, just to get my legs in for the Dragon which really isn’t that far off now…