Holdsworth
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- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire
For the first time I have had a day off work and reasonable weather for cycling in (no rain) and have gone and done a ride into the Cheshire countryside and back equating to 23 miles. I set off at around around 12:10 and returned just before 3pm. I had a 15 minute lunch break in Wrenbury and a 20 minute stop off at the lbs on Earle Street in Crewe.
The wind was a bit brisk on the return leg and it was fairly cold but the exercise soon got rid of that issue. I found it quite enjoyable to go that far in one go under my own power
The distance I covered overall is near enough half the distance to my Grandma's house near Shrewsbury so I thinking that may be my eventual target for a day ride. That is still a long way off yet though.
It wasn't all fine and dandy though, I had a hairy pass on the lane going out of Ravensmoor where a WVM overtook at speed with little room and oncoming traffic. And on Nantwich road where the cycle path leaves the road and goes onto the path and puts you out onto a junction; I stayed on the road to negotiate the junction safely and had a young woman try to overtake just before a ped refuge and she had to slam on her brakes to avoid demolishing it!!! She disappeared a few yards later at the junction before the mini Tesco and Shell garage, I think if she'd got past me a left hook would have been on the cards with the way she was driving.
Anyway here's the route, slightly altered as Google maps thinks that some roads are one way only when they aren't:
Route
The wind was a bit brisk on the return leg and it was fairly cold but the exercise soon got rid of that issue. I found it quite enjoyable to go that far in one go under my own power
The distance I covered overall is near enough half the distance to my Grandma's house near Shrewsbury so I thinking that may be my eventual target for a day ride. That is still a long way off yet though.
It wasn't all fine and dandy though, I had a hairy pass on the lane going out of Ravensmoor where a WVM overtook at speed with little room and oncoming traffic. And on Nantwich road where the cycle path leaves the road and goes onto the path and puts you out onto a junction; I stayed on the road to negotiate the junction safely and had a young woman try to overtake just before a ped refuge and she had to slam on her brakes to avoid demolishing it!!! She disappeared a few yards later at the junction before the mini Tesco and Shell garage, I think if she'd got past me a left hook would have been on the cards with the way she was driving.
Anyway here's the route, slightly altered as Google maps thinks that some roads are one way only when they aren't:
Route
..... then aim to come back again
, thank you.
