AndreaJ
Veteran
Yesterdays ride in lovely sunshine again was a regular tour of Whixall lanes, through to Fenns Wood , Fenns Bank over the canal to Alkington then to Tilstock where I use the only main road of the ride for about 200 meters before turning back to Hollinswood and back to Goblins Lane , Stanley green, Coton, Waterloo, Edsataston, Ryebank, Horton and back home. Lots of people out , cyclists and dog walkers. 23.8 miles@15.9mph. Out again today as I don't work on Mondays, still sunny but a little cooler with the breeze, started in the same direction as yesterday to Fenns Bank but crossed the canal at the first bridge, got there just in time for the people passing on their boat to have finished winding the bridge back down so didn't have to wait and carried on to Alkington, Hollinswood where I came across 6 white geese with 3 goslings in the road, the car coming in the opposite direction and I managed to slowly persuade them up a farm drive which looked a better place to be than the road and I carried on to Cotonwood, Coton back to Edsaston past a donkey in a field enjoying a dust bath, Ryebank , Creamore and into Wem , I don't usually go this way and it is a horrible rough road surface most of the way to Wem, through Wem, past work onto my longer commute route to Tilley, Commonwood, Nonely, Loppington where there were traffic lights, which turned green for me , and the road I would usually use was closed so I carried on to the Ellesmere road to Wolverley and back home. 24.3 miles @15.7mph.Hopefully the traffic lights will be gone tomorrow for my ride home from work.
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.Well what can i say,best ride in over two years.Not the distance 44 miles.Not the destination Rufforth between Wetherby and York.Not the cafe,The Old School House.But the feeling of buckets of energy and stamina,no pain in the legs,or thighs.Everything was perfect.It seems to me the troubles with the Prostate and depression because of the tablets is now a distant memory.i rode on roads i last visited over two years ago.At the Cafe i sat in the garden and had my two lattes,i will tell you i was overwhelmed with emotion and i had a cry,that's how much it meant to me,to get to Rufforth.I was a little slower coming back but not much.This year has been good five times i have been to Otley 12 miles each way,once to Knareborough 22 miles each way and today 22 miles each way.Soon i intend to go to York but i am taking my rail card incase i fancy a train ride back.What a wonderful day.I also think food and the SIS tablets helped two 500 bottles on the bike,with a great breakfast of porridge,honey blackcurrant jam,banana and a handful of walnuts.I look forwrd also to trying the Sports Fuel i have ordered after reading about it n here.I also have it in my head to do Scarborough and come back on the train,but that can wait till i come back from America.What a wonderful day.
) pic' of bike against the sign where I was entering Staveley and I had stopped to chat to someone I know on their bike cycling in the other direction.
