Thursday, 3 May 2012

Have I found the steepest way out of Guildford?

Seems like a miracle happened yesterday as it was not actually raining!  Part of my training plan is to ride on longer routes home from work a couple days a week, but the weather has been so lousy recently I have not done so for about a month, but yesterday despite being overcast I decided to try out a completely different route home on the bike and see some more of the local area I have yet to explore.
I set of at 4.30 on a route I had plotted into the sat nav a few weeks back and its nice and flat for the first mile or so but then once I got over the other side of town I started to climb.  I knew about the first hill which peaked at the 1.5 mile mark of my ride, but had not expected the next big climb at 2.5 miles or the one at 5.  Needless to say the muscles where not best pleased with these climbs and I even contemplated dropping down to the granny gear at one point but am pleased to report that I resisted.
The route out of Guildford was interesting to see, and very scenic at points.  Really liked seeing the architecture for the buildings at what I think was a private school and it always makes me happy when I see rabbits and there was plenty of them about.
I had a 14 mile route home plotted into the sat nav but around the 10 mile mark having reached the roads I have been doing a few training rides on recently and feeling pretty good and enjoying the ride I decided to extend the ride to a 20 miler.   The roads around Seale are great from a no traffic point of view which helped make it an enjoyable ride.
If you know the area have a look at the course I took and let me know if I took the steepest way home

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