Despite the weather I felt really strong for the first couple of hours, in fact I didn't stop until 28 miles - and that was because I needed a pee and to refill my water bottle, I'm pretty sure my legs could have gone for longer. I started to tire soon after as the aches kicked in and the weather started to wear me down.
I need to bite the bullet and buy some new waterproof gloves. After 3 British winters mine are waterproof in name only. They're not very breathable either so the insides smells like I've been pickling onions in there!
I'm definitely getting fitter though _ I can climb harder and for longer and can descend faster and with more confidence. In fact I'm more confident on the bike all round - the one benefit of all this training in the rain is that I am now comfortable in a multitude of unfavourable conditions. When I first started anything less than a perfect road surface had my heart fluttering and my hands reaching for the brakes.
The picture by the way is a wind farm a few miles north of my home. I was around 200m from the nearest turbine and it was totally silent despite turning at a fair pace. All I could hear was my breathing (the wind farm is on top of a hill natch) and a chiffchaff in the tree behind me. Nothing from the turbines - no air turbulence, no rotor noise, just 5 beautifully elegant turbines silently spinning away.
Now to clean the 45 miles of road muck off the bike and do it all again.
It's just started to rain of course.
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