After yesterdays short but chilly ride, it felt even colder this morning despite what the thermometer was reading - that wind from the east really made itself felt.
Sadly time limited again, so another local loop to keep the legs turning.
Coal Road and good news - the traffic lights detected the bike! Glad they've finally fixed them (again).
Onto Skeltons Lane and up to the A58, spotting a couple of police traffic cars sat on the forecourt of the petrol station across the way. Hmmm...something afoot?
A few hundred yards up Wetherby Road and there seemed to be a lot of activity in the pub car park for early on a Sunday morning.
Getting closer it was some sort of club run for Porsche owners - there must have been 50 or more porkers lined up, with drivers stood around ready for the off.
That might explain the police presence just up the road...keep an eye out for them on Police Interceptors
Left onto Whin Moor Way, where a very trick looking Caterham was parked up and out into the countryside and up to Shadwell.
Right at the junction and the descent back through the village, noticing several signs warning of restrictions for the Tour de Yorkshire in a few weeks.
Across the junction at the end and the sharp climb up to the A58, across and onto Carr Lane for the ups and downs towards Thorner.
Into the village and doing well for time I headed past St Peters Church and up Milner Lane, which never seems to get any easier
Along the ridge to Holme Farm Lane and then to Rigton Green, before looping back via the wonderfully quiet Bramham Lane and Jewitt Lane.
Retraced my route back into Thorner and then straight through the village to tackle the climb up Sandhills (aka Van Zyl Hill) head on. Sadly the writing on the road from the inaugural TdY has now all but gone, but there was another sign warning of restrictions for this years race, so I stopped for a pic:
Back on the bike and along Skeltons Lane where the race will go on Friday 3rd May (so I expect to slip even further down the segment rankings...
) and left at the roundabout onto Coal Road.
Along there for a bit, then onto local roads down to home.
15.6 miles (25.1 km) in
1h 19m at a steady average of
11.9 mph with just
787 ft climbed and an average temperature of
3.0°C 
Enjoyed that once I'd warmed up. Loads of cyclists out today, like a summers day almost, numbers wise.
I do hope it warms up again soon though as I'm not enjoying this chilly snap at all.
And to end, the map:
as a roll out but a definite chill in the air 
. Up the Wreake valley where I relaxed my pace and the 3 riders caught me up so a bit of chatting as we rode together for a few miles . At Hoby I went left and they went straight on. The climb into Ragdale then a quick drop then the steep climb out up past the health spa . Nice steady descent down Paudy lane into Barrow on soar ,Quorn ,Mountsorrel ,Rothley and home had to ride past home for a quarter of a mile and back to get 50km in . The time I got home the sun had gone in and the temperature had definitely dropped . 31.2 miles at 17.3 mph well happy with my speed today .
