Set out on my own to do a 50 mile ride again this morning. The wind had died down a lot from yesterday but I soon found out that it was most certainly not gone. I had intended on taking it easy compared to last week as whilst I was pleased to manage the 17.3mph average over the distance I have to face facts that I need to conserve energy for the longer (80 mile) rides and to be able to get up and do it all again the next day for three days.
This plan was in a way scuppered by the wind as it meant I had to constantly push quite hard just to keep going, but coming across a nice couple of other cyclists at Thursley who were heading in my direction helped as I chatted with the two of them for the eight miles to Puttenham and this helped me settle into a conserving pace. I did the same 30 mile ride followed by 20 minute tea and twix break followed by 20 mile plan again. I explored a bit of the area south of Farnham for the second part of the ride and did not intend to do Farnham Castle hill / Fox hill this week but as I was passing the bottom of the hill I told myself I had to do it because I didn’t want to. Took it pretty easy up these this week and felt pretty good starting Fox hill having accomplished Castle hill firmly seated in the saddle but head on wind soon changed the smile to a frown. Managed the 50 miles in 3hours 8 minutes with an average of 16.2mph so pretty pleased with the result.
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