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Bike:Humuhumunukunukuapau’a
Distance: 30 miles

Well that made up for the shitty weekend. An absolutely dream commute, well almost. Going there I found out the short route is only 12 miles Need to see if I can extend that offroad a bit, but beautiful all the same. I need to see if I can sort the washing arrangements too, it’s horrible trying to get clean in that tiny sink, I pretty much gave up in the end, towelled myself dry and sprayed liberally with deodorant, need a desk fan to cool me down too.

Going home was lovely. Very bright and sunny, Sankey Valley park filled with smiling young ladies. Lots of flying insects about too mind. Rode back to Newton then carried on to Haydock. Obviously as I got nearer to leigh things got a bit darker. In Golborne this angry looking pisshead stagger out of a pub and walked straight in front of a car. The lady beeped her horn and he shouted at her, then he made straight for me. We stared at each other as he approached and I prepared to get the first punch in if he turned nasty for no other reason than I was there but then he saw a drinking partner/enemy/wife and shouted at someone and veered off towards them. After that it went downhill a bit. Bad drivers, idiots driving too fast, too close. Got on the towpath and came across a few gangs of loud, shirtless teenagers all being macho to each other and shouting at me. Got to a busy road in Leigh, Eventually someone stopped to let the car in front of me out and when I went out after him the stopped driver shouted ‘Not you!’ at me. Fuckwit.

Good ride overall though, bloody hot. Just considering doing it all again tomorrow.