My First 50 miler!

[jackm]

Earlier in the week I promised myself I was going to do 50 miles today...I had a free afternoon.
Didn't look at weather forcast as I wanted no excuse to back out.
Had a route in mind

About Wednesday, started to develop a bit of a cold, so tried a quick 20 miler, was ok so fingers crossed for today.....

Today, felt ok ish so dosed myself up with soluble disprin and went for it.

My God, it was windy, so made an early decision to go steady, not fighting the wind at all, just dropping a couple of gears, and pedalling smoothly.

The route wasn't too hilly (apart from 1 after about 35 miles that I just looked at then got off the bike and walked, slowly)

Had a couple of stops for drink/nibbles

Just over 4 hours at 12.5 mph, quite happy with that.

The chariot of choice for the ride? Just my HOoD.

HOoD? WTF is that?

Halfords Object of Derision! It has got road tyres though

Thanks for reading

Jack

 

[Canardly]

Grats your first 50 is a major hurdle it gets easier.......

 

[Garz]

Congratulations jackm!

 

[NormanD]

well done now onwards and upwards 

 

[rovers1875]

Well done, nice feeling isn't it.

 

[jackm]

Thanks for the positive comments, had a quick 25er today, just to shake some life back into the legs!

 

[ianrauk]

Congrats on your achievement. Now you can start planning your maiden 100 miler

 

[marinyork]

Chapeau.

 

[fatboysoontobeslim]

well done fella keep it up