Training ride 3 (Day2) : Chesham

Ciaran, Simon and I set off at 6am on Sunday to meet Paul on the way up to Windsor. Plan was to meet Rich on the normal loop to the west of Windsor. Paul managed to get another puncture in almos exactly the same place as last time we met up there - he really hasn't had much luck recently. Still, at least his cycling shorts weren't foaming: that would be very embarrasing.

We met up with Rich easily enough, and then he took us on a tour of Berkshire & Buckinghamshire ending up near his house in Chesham.

At around 9am, Simon mentioned the idea of a bacon sandwich. How completely unfair. I dont remember much about the rest of the ride, so focussed was I on getting home to have a bacon butty!!!

Ok - I remember some of it. Rich took us over some of his favourite hills. They weren't really what we call hills in Surrey, but they at least kept us warm!! Once we got to Chesham, we turned around and headed home.

Again I am struck with how much I have progressed, because when we arrived at Windsor on the way back I remember thinking "nearly home"; where we still had 25 miles to do. I can't help thinking back to December and our first 22 mile training ride and how far that seemed!!

Anyway, we got home having done almost 90 miles after 6 hours. So that makes almost 200 miles in a weekend; 13 hours in the saddle; and the knowledge that I can actually cycle that far in that time - just need to be able to do it in one day now.