A family day out meant I had to miss the usual Sunday group ride. After a Friday night out in Manchester seeing Peter Kay (excellent!) I sat in the car the following morning until Warwick and then was kicked out by my wife and pedalled the rest of the way home.
My route followed a pretty direct course through Banbury, Woodstock, Witney, Wantage and up over the Ridgeway to skirt around Newbury to the west via Winterbourne, Stockcross and Marsh Benham.
The terrain was pretty flat in places but with some stiff 10% climbs near Banbury and then the final pull out of Wantage, all done in very hot conditions - 27 degrees C and almost no wind.
All in all 90.6 miles in 5 hours 42 minutes an average speed of 15.9 mph.
Within 20 mins of arriving home I was off out again to a "boys" night out watching the Champions League final. The first four beers went down in one gulp. After a long ride I figured I deserved it!
South of France next week.
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