I've just enjoyed re-reading the last few pages on here on my PC, as apposed to on the Hudl, and the pictures look so much better! It'll probably show up how rubbish mine are but I'll include them anyway as they might add a little more flavour...
Yesterday started with me over-sleeping because I adjusted my alarm clock the wrong way - another senior moment, so I ended up with losing an hour from my ride rather than an hour's sleep.
No one else had signed up to the shorter club ride yesterday but I had just signed up 'Ride with gps' and paid for the version with sound so I downloaded the route onto my phone and started the ride from Walkden instead of riding to the club starting point in Swinton and out again which I would have missed anyway due to my mistake with the clock. Listening to the instructions and prompts in my jacket pocket worked really well and I was able to take in the sights and sounds of the journey much more. I wish I'd tried it before now.
A lovely quiet ride as I didn't see that many other cyclists or too many cars on the lanes, though I don't think the lanes around Lymm are as busy as the lanes around Dunham and Ashley.
Out through Astley, Leigh, Culcheth, Glazebrook, Warburton and around Lymm.
Anyway, It was my first time out to Lymm on my own so not only did I stop far too often for photos but I also took advantage of the chance to explore Lymm a little. I found a weir and a dinosaur footprint (displayed in a glass box but the glass was a bit misty so you couldn't really see it very well) .
It was very much an all 'weather-ride', with sunshine, wind and heavy showers. One minute I was bowling along easily at 18 mph, the next minute I'd go round a corner and nearly get blown of sideways. Luckily none of the hills seemed to require battling into a headwind.
I stopped at the convenient cafe barge on the canal in Lymm for a delicious hot toasted teacake and coffee, though later regretted its lack of conveniences, and enjoyed the display by the vociferous courting mallards.
I realised after resuming the ride that I wouldn't have time to complete the whole route so turned round to go home a shorter way. I had to be back for visitors at lunch time ( not for lunch though - long story). I set Google maps on voice and regretted putting it on bike rather than car avoiding motorways after it sent me down the very muddy puddly NCN 62. I got back onto the road eventually but meanwhile the bike and I had become rather splattered.
I enjoyed myself much more than my rubbish ride on Wednesday and it didn't feel like I'd done the total of 36.6 miles so my legs must have recovered.
I've realised that I have become far too used to predictive text on my Hudl! This has taken ages to type and I can't seem to work out how to upload the pictures from My Google Photos where everything from all my devices are synced so I will have to add them in a minute from the Hudl.
Took a little route through town and a quick shortcut past the swimming baths. That is when at the same spot the other cyclist called me a d*ckhead the other day a nobber in a punto did a pointless MGIF getting so close to my bars that I could touch his car, I had to slam on my brakes or id of hit him. Checked his reg when I was editing vid up and turns out he was uninsured, untaxed and the car had no MOT. surprise. surprise 
i HATE uninsured drivers 
. (Probably time to book a first tweak at the LBS). 
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