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Bike: Roly
Distance: 37 miles

That’s better. I’m starting to pick things up now. It’s having a working roadbike that makes the difference.

Mostly a repeat of Thursday today with some small variations. Faster today and with some bigger downhills. This was achieved with the sun in my face before I lost my bottle at not being able to see where I was going at all and knowing a car was coming up the hill.

Good ride though, still very windy mind. I moved the seat right forwards and my back feels fine now. Road riding rocks.

In other news then….

I need a high performance road bike. I could but a carbon lovely from say planet X for a grand but I dunno, I like steel a lot and I can get some very nice deals on Genesis bikes from a friend so I dunno. Or should I just leave it. It’s a hard choice.  I’m looking for something that can be ridden a long way, steel would be better I reckon.

I’ve started planning my road trip in summer. About a hundred miles a day, head up to Scotland, across to the East coast, back down to East Anglia, across to Wales and then back up to home.  Old school too. Panniers, at least two nights sleeping rough, use youth hostels or similar the rest of the time. Drink proper beer some nights. Just ride, relax, take it easy, see the country.

Also I’ve finally got my home webmail sorted to allow me to read my own mail when I’m at work.this step is critical to allowing me to take up some more intensive activities when I’m bored (which is most of the time at the moment) like bug reporting on linux systems and helping out with linux/security community issues. I’m also looking to set up a home business offering security services to local businesses who want to set up wireless/encryption/firewalls.