A repeat of a ride I did last month, there are only so many combinations of roads I can put together. And anyway, my Garmin got the distance wrong. By 17.8 yards. Must have been taking the twiddly bits wider. Wednesday around here was hideously cold, inch thick ice on the bird bath, an easy decision not to ride.
Holbeck triangle again, the amount of discarded stuff scattered around a virtually deserted area is so strange. Long ago bin wagons on bumpy roads used to lose some of their contents quite often, I would not have though it happened these days. Ride through Hunslet, climb to John o’ Gaunts and turn left to pass through Woodlesford. The drop past the station really was cold. Left, cross canal and river, little traffic for a change, up the series of lumps through Swillington and follow that with a few larger lumps around the north side of Garforth, carrying on to Lotherton Gates and left again for AberfordThe ex pub at the corner of Cattle Lane is still being renovated, I suspect it is to be reinvented as some sort of desirable residences.
Barwick just seems to stay the same, as does Scholes and the climbs that take you through them. A bit of A 64, Thorner Lane to Skeltons Lane to Red Hall Lane and the brisk drop down Boot Hill, fingers beginning to feel the cold, and home in 28.3 miles. Another good one.
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so was riding old school;nice ride finished off with a coffee and toast at Espresso Library.
