Windy Bwlch!
My Christmas day ride managed to happen again this year. I usually take a mountain bike, and am guaranteed a ride in Afan or Glycorrwg when visiting the in-laws in Swansea. This year though I really only wanted to ride the road bike on Christmas day, so took a chance and packed that bike only.
Well the weather was great, cold but dry and calm. The climb up Cimla is always a rude awakening but quiet. As I climbed the start of the Bwlch past Afan visitor centre it was still calm until I got to the climb proper at Blaengwynfi, at which point I rode into the most insane headwind which stayed against me right over the top and down into Treorchy. It nearly blew me to a standstill at one point.
The rest of ride through Treorchy and up and over Rhigos was calm again. I even got a tailwind all the way back down the long straight from Glyn Neath to Neath Abbey which had me keeping up with the cars through Neath at around 25-30mph!
So I at last got a metric century in for December…anyone else managed a Christmas day ride!