7 miles today, and a new Strava PB on a segment near home. Cold is a great motivator. Also got some mud in, and covered the Trek 800 in a great deal of it. I talked to the road crew, and they told me the final 300 feet of the trail will wait until Spring. That's okay, that's where the mud is. Beats trying to ride in the road where it merges from 4 lanes down to 2. Enough hilarity watching the cars being uncivil, without myself being involved. The Trek 800, also known as "Big Purple", (a reference to The Band, who recorded in a house known as "Big Pink" for one of their albums) got quite muddy, but was wiped down quite easily thereafter. A good coat of auto wax, and the cold temperature (about 2C) helped make the job easy.
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forecast today, I was actually looking forward to going out. Unusually for me I even had a route planned which took me out through Chobham and into Sunninghill before heading off to Ascot. That was the plan, but a road completely blocked by a bus saw a minor diversion so I entered WGP at Dukes Lane. Saw some cows:
