went out early…
lucky it wasn’t cold or anything 👿 i was planning to go out to weston super mare but that starts with a 2 mile descent and i couldn’t face it… went the other way where it’s flat for a couple of miles so i could get a bit of blood flowing. even so, my feet were pretty numb after about halfway… the computer didn’t register a positive temperature till about three hours in.
stayed on the main roads for this one because all the lanes just looked like instant death. but there wasn’t any traffic anyway. even on the A roads i could feel the rear wheel slipping when i stood up, was pretty icy on the roads that hadn’t been salted, and there were plenty of them. still, had a good run and got to the 100k mark in 4:05 which is quick for a fat lad like me 🙂
i got weird wind too, DaSy – calm for ages and then a big blast coming out of wells on the only long climb of the route, i was grovelling up it at a snail’s pace. it was windy on the descent too, but then it just stopped. odd