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julietMile 62: have reached Great Waldingfield, where there is FOOD which I am currently in a large queue for.
It seems to be about to start raining again (it did quite heavily for about 10-15 miles then stopped a couple of miles ago). As the queue is all the way outside, this is Bad.
(cycling in the rain hasn't actually been that bad. A little chilly, maybe)
Knees holding up OK; back a bit achey, & my hands keep going odd where they're resting on the handlebars...
I seem to have 3 basic sets of thought process:
a) (on the flat/slight uphill) Hurrah, this is really rather fun, could keep this up indefinitely.
b) (halfway up hill) Oh god I am going to die.
c) (downhill) Um, how fast is it safe to go when I can't see well ftb darkness?
The observant reader will have noticed that as I am cycling through Essex & Suffolk, a) predominates. Hurrah.
(actually, standing in this damn queue is feeling far tougher than the cycling!)
I've done a lot of it so far solo in the sense of quite often not having people visible in front of me. Whether this is good or bad depends rather - sometimes it's felt a bit scary, but sometimes really exhilarating. Someone always shows up (from in front or behind) sooner or later though. There's a lot of us out here.
(more people are overtaking me than I am overtaking, I think. ah well. It is not a rave, after all)
Av 13.2mph (I blame the hills)
It seems to be about to start raining again (it did quite heavily for about 10-15 miles then stopped a couple of miles ago). As the queue is all the way outside, this is Bad.
(cycling in the rain hasn't actually been that bad. A little chilly, maybe)
Knees holding up OK; back a bit achey, & my hands keep going odd where they're resting on the handlebars...
I seem to have 3 basic sets of thought process:
a) (on the flat/slight uphill) Hurrah, this is really rather fun, could keep this up indefinitely.
b) (halfway up hill) Oh god I am going to die.
c) (downhill) Um, how fast is it safe to go when I can't see well ftb darkness?
The observant reader will have noticed that as I am cycling through Essex & Suffolk, a) predominates. Hurrah.
(actually, standing in this damn queue is feeling far tougher than the cycling!)
I've done a lot of it so far solo in the sense of quite often not having people visible in front of me. Whether this is good or bad depends rather - sometimes it's felt a bit scary, but sometimes really exhilarating. Someone always shows up (from in front or behind) sooner or later though. There's a lot of us out here.
(more people are overtaking me than I am overtaking, I think. ah well. It is not a rave, after all)
Av 13.2mph (I blame the hills)
