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Bike:Vela
Distance: 92 miles

Lawks!! Proper ride. Almost 2000m of climbing, seriously strong winds, plenty of rain and all on a small packet of Roundtree Randoms!! The human body is amazing!

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The hills would have been fine and certainly most of the way to Keithley I was proper caning it, 19mph average up to that point and anyone who knows the climb out of Hebden over to Keithley will be nodding in awe right now. After that, well the reason for my earlier high speeds became apparent as I found the wind blowing into my face, properly hard. Most downhills I’d find myself pedalling hard just to keep moving and one memorable, quite steep hill saw me doing 9mph despite me pounding on the pedals dramatically.

And it rained. Not *all* the time it has to be said but quite a lot and many different varieties. I know I should have taken it to a century but by the time I got home I was so wet, cold and knackered I just called it a day.

117 miles for the week, lucky I pulled this one out of the bag.

Oh and that takes me just past last years total, nice.