Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
So today started off disastrously. My meeting with my therapy woman to help with depression was to be bumped to lunchtime as there had been a disaster at the office and I would have been working at lunch time. Then the lunch time woman who's dog I was supposed to groom decided to go shopping and let me know that she would prefer to shop than to have her dog groomed, which meant that I could ring therapy woman and say that lunchtime was fine. With all that's going on in my life and whatnot, I need all the help that I can get right now. Also, I find the New Year time to be very depressing in an "oh joy and rapture, here we go again" sort of way.
This meant that I had nothing on all morning so I said to Hubster "Lets go riding" He agreed and off we went in the sunshine. We decided on the Wreningham loop, which is 11.05 miles of wet roads with a smattering of mud and cow poo here and there. We got about 10 minutes out when Hubster had a right grump on him. I decided that I didn't need the grief and kicked on a bit and left him. I spent the rest of the time about 2 minutes ahead of him which was fine by me.
I saw Lotus' galore while passing the Lotus factory. About 8 of them were obviously going in the car park and all gave me plenty of room while they overtook me. Maybe they were all reps in company cars going for a meeting. I saw a falconer falconing (?), I saw a man walking the fattest labrador in the world. I say walking, I could hear the dog gasping for breath as I approached. The chap was trying to entice the dog to walk along by waving a treat at him. A whole bonio
no wonder it was so fat. I wonder how many of them it gets a day. A lot I should think, poor thing.
Once home, I sat about for a couple of minutes as Hubster had the keys (rookie mistake, I know) but I had my bike turned upside down and had the watering can in hand ready to go in and fill it with water as my beloved Giant was a touch muddy, to say the least.
11.05 miles in a shockingly long time of 54:29, which is about 8 minutes slower than normal. But its winter and I've got fat. It was just bloody brilliant to ride in the daylight for a change.
This meant that I had nothing on all morning so I said to Hubster "Lets go riding" He agreed and off we went in the sunshine. We decided on the Wreningham loop, which is 11.05 miles of wet roads with a smattering of mud and cow poo here and there. We got about 10 minutes out when Hubster had a right grump on him. I decided that I didn't need the grief and kicked on a bit and left him. I spent the rest of the time about 2 minutes ahead of him which was fine by me.
I saw Lotus' galore while passing the Lotus factory. About 8 of them were obviously going in the car park and all gave me plenty of room while they overtook me. Maybe they were all reps in company cars going for a meeting. I saw a falconer falconing (?), I saw a man walking the fattest labrador in the world. I say walking, I could hear the dog gasping for breath as I approached. The chap was trying to entice the dog to walk along by waving a treat at him. A whole bonio
no wonder it was so fat. I wonder how many of them it gets a day. A lot I should think, poor thing.Once home, I sat about for a couple of minutes as Hubster had the keys (rookie mistake, I know) but I had my bike turned upside down and had the watering can in hand ready to go in and fill it with water as my beloved Giant was a touch muddy, to say the least.
11.05 miles in a shockingly long time of 54:29, which is about 8 minutes slower than normal. But its winter and I've got fat. It was just bloody brilliant to ride in the daylight for a change.
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Once back on track there was a long climb followed by a fantastic view over the Severn flood plain...... which was flooded.
On the positive side though, all the lorries that passed me gave plenty of room.
. Have been on bike very few times from December even so glad even for one day. Hit a smallish pot hole so was not happy about that, the good thing about using the same route....... you know where the obstacles are !
