My god was it windy today,never have i struggled to cycle downhill before!
After a 4 mile road run on sunday and a 4 mile trail run monday,my first runs for 5 days due to feeling a bit grim(2 day booze bender the weekend before most certainly didn't have anything to do with it!) i decided to get the bike out after work today as my legs were feeling a bit tender and i fancied a cycle on my lovley steel machine.I set out without a real plan,intending to go by feel,for the first time since i started cycling again 8 weeks ago i actually felt comfortable on the bike,keeping a really nice tempo going round Greenfield village i thought i'd ride up to Bleak Hey Nook,a small hamlet above Delph and Diggle,from the bottom it rises for about 2 miles at an average of 8%,i was lulled into a false sense of security as i was shelterd from the wind going up the climb and felt quite strong but when i turned at the top to descend down to Delph crossroads i felt i was cycling through treacle while suffering from severe brain freeze! Total distance for the ride just over 16 miles,climb not sure but about 4 miles of it was uphill,time...just over the hour.Just for the record,the cold bottle of asahi with my tea went down a treat!
Plan is to try and get up to about 30 miles a week running by christmas and push on from there,looking forward to pushing on into the winter and getting some good long steady runs in at the weekends
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