What a day. It was torrential rain overnight (sufficient for us to have a power cut in the early hours) and was still pretty bad when I hit the road a little before 6.30am. It got worse and proceeded to rain for the entire trip of nearly 7 hours. I got a bit lost so called it a day before my original end point, but used a Tesco store as my turn around point. This allowed for hot chocolate, cake, a change of clothes and purchase of clean dry socks and carrier bags!
It's amazing how much rain and wind takes out of you and despite this being only 7 miles further than last week, I came back a wreck and with a sore hip. Hopefully a few days rest will sort that and I'll be ready for a good ride later in the week.
Going 100 miles is a landmark in its own right, but in addition, except for next week which is a bit different (I'm cycling home from my mothers, again around 100 miles or so) this represents the furthest I'll be going in training. It's scary to think I'm cycling to Paris next month!
A landmark! (104.26 miles)
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