Monday, 27 August 2012

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Monday, 20 August 2012

2012 Week 33

Week 33 (w/e 19 August 2012)

Miles: 132.2
Total: 4253.4

Monday, 13 August 2012

2012 Week 32

Week 32 (w/e 12 August 2012)

Miles: 206.4

A monster week! Helped by several days of warm and sunny weather, I put together my first weekly score of 200+ (not counting the one-off week a year ago when I did the Berwick trip) since August 1999. I can't quite believe that the last occasion I achieved this was 13 long years ago.

The big score was given a helpful push by going off on a special 52 mile ride on the Tuesday with my cycling mate Bryn. See the special entry to read about the route.

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

The Lancaster Loop ride

The Lancaster Loop


Tuesday 7 August 2012

Today I did a special longer ride (52 miles) ride with my cycling mate Bryn, up the hills to Caton, Lancaster and back. We took a chance on the weather. It was belting down at 8 am and still raining at 10. But the BBC forecast claimed that the afternoon would be sunny, so Bryn took the chance and came over from West Yorkshire. By 1 pm the clouds were beginning to disperse and the sun was attempting break out, so we set off. Things temporarily got a bit grey and chilly when we'd climed through Quernmore, but before too long we had blue skies and pleasant sunshine for the remainder of the ride.

Here's a link to the route:

http://www.plotaroute.com/route/32189

And a screenshot of the route:


Monday, 6 August 2012