I think I’m developing a cycling stutter..

Take 1:  head up road in plenty of time to meet the ACG lot in the Square.  Discover that front tyre is well on the way to doing a pancake impresssion.  Turn round.  Go home.  Grab mechanic, inner tube and tyre levers.  Change tube.  Re-inflate tyre to more normal doughnut proportions and…

Take 2: head up the road and meet 5 of the ACG lot in the Square, being only marginally late, and not being the last to arrive either.

Hand reigns over to GB.  Follow blindly off on very convoluted route towards the Walled Garden.  Discover some of the muddiest pot-hole ridden roads possible.  Curse GB for need to wash bike later.  Admire GB for finding roads that we actually hadn’t ridden down before – not an easy task these days!  Enjoy the sun, admire the views…

Arrive at cafe.  Consume very expensive coffee and carrot cake.  Contemplate ominous view.  Will weather to pass by on either side.  Watch weather approaching dead centre.  Watch the rain getting closer and closer.  Feel the temperature dropping.  Leave just as the rain arrives and…every man (or woman) for themselves.  Somebody up there clearly thought I shouldn’t have moaned about cleaning my bike and decided to do it for me…  Rain like bullets, roads like rivers, head down, foot down and hammer it home.  As Fast As Possible.  Rarely seen rain like it.  Be happy never to see it again.  It was kinda funny though – practically laughable *grin*.

Cycling time: 2:04:30
Distance: 30.10 miles
Avs: 14.5 mph
ODO: 3358 miles

It’s amazing how fast you can get home when you have to…and I was soaked through by the time I got there.  But the bike was indeed a lot cleaner.  Though I still cleaned it.  In the rain.  Well, I couldn’t get any wetter…

Strange to say, the whole ride was oddly enjoyable *grin*.