I got a nice ride in today. I had some extra time so went to meet Hubster from the hospital via Bowthorpe and Bawburgh. I got up Stocks Hill and was well and truly scalped by one of the Norwich Velo lot who said 'hello' as he shot past me. I did kick on a bit after he passed so he was pulling away a little slower than he was when he passed me (does that make sense? I know what I mean anyway).
From the top of the hill I headed left and towards Norwich again and got up to 28.2mph on my CX bike, down the slight hill towards Colney. Interestingly that hill seems to be a lot less downy than it is uppy in the other direction. I was trying for 30mph but it started it's upturn before I could quite get there.
The hospital came along quite quickly and I managed to zip up the hill, over the roundabout and up the next hill and was heading for Cringleford. I was still a bit early for meeting Hubster. I normally go down the cyclepath parallel with the A11 but decided not to and went into Cringleford properly and then turned left, up another hill (Norfolk hill so a wee bumple to everyone else) and on to the cyclepath on the outbound side of the A11 and over at the crossing and back to the hospital via Roundhouse.
Once there, I was still 5 mins early so buzzed up to the Casualty car park and back, still no Hubster so up to the staff carpark, along the cyclepath to Casualty and back round again. I came off the roundabout just as Hubster was pulling into the layby. Great timing all around.
Fantastic ride, really really enjoyed it. 10.37 miles averaging 13.1mph so thrilled with that. All that climbing that I did? 245 lousy feet. It felt like the Matterhorn to me. I am 8 miles over my Feb target so I've extended it so now need to do 7 tomorrow to make 90 miles in the month. I know it's not much but it's February. I can't see the point in February, it's a horrible month. Christmas a dim and distant memory and Spring tantalisingly out of reach. If it's OK by lunchtime, the forecast has given rain out for the morning, I'm going to go for a ride with
@StickBouncer. 7 miles is to his and back so if we sling a 10 miler in, that'll give me a round 100 for the month. Very satisfying.
;think doing some core exercises has started to help but still need to get some longer rides in soon.
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