Our plan had been to start mid-week rides from last week, but as Ant had been poorly we had to postpone it until this week. Thankfully the weather has been glorious, so I was looking forward to getting out on the bike after work.
After the steep climb out of Exminster I was huffing and puffing and feeling really fed up. I asked Ant why we were putting ourselves through this. He said 'it makes for good dinner party conversation' to which I ungraciously replied 'how many *bleep**ing* dinner parties do we go to?!'
Following that we both had to stop a couple of times due to flies in our eyes and I cursed the fact that we hadn't got round to buying new glasses after we'd both managed to break our old ones.
Fortunately once we got on to the lanes behind Powderham my mood lifted and it was glorious to be pedalling along in the sunshine. The road was busier than we anticipated though - we had to pull in to let two tractors go past and later after hearing frantic shouts from behind we pulled across as a huge group of very speedy cyclists whizzed past us, later followed by another two groups of cyclists. The third group were most friendly and shouted out 'evening' to us as they hurtled past. Great to see so many cyclists out - although a little scary to see their pace. I hope the other cyclists doing our ride aren't going to be that fast!
We didn't really want to turn back home as it was such a lovely evening, but at Starcross we did an about turn as we hadn't planned to be out all night and we needed to get home for tea. Back at home, with 16.7 miles on the clock, Ant smashed a plant pot attempting to maneouvre our bikes around in our tiny garden. We've had few incidents getting our bikes in and out and I'm determined that next time we move we're going to have a garage!
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| The plant pot is the latest victim of our cycling adventures! |
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| Ignoring the calamity - I have jelly babies! |
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