I blame the 6 week summer holidays.
Setting off at 14:40, I was out to meet a different kind of rush hour today: the school run.
So rather than being passed at high speed by frustrated office bods in their Ford Mondeos desperate to make it home 30 seconds faster than usual, today I ended up dodging SUV hell outside more schools than I even knew existed around here.
It didn’t dawn on me until I was already ~10 minutes out that by the time I’d be getting back today it would be school kicking out time. That would almost certainly make the usually busy junctions that much busier (which it did). But I figured (wrongly) that where I was heading wouldn’t be impacted by schools.
I was aiming to get in about 45 minutes of riding, and I’d opted for a countryside-ish route. The key, as ever, is to try and get off the busier roads as quickly as possible, then potter around the countryside back roads enjoying the farm smells and muck coated roads.
I’d aimed to keep today at tempo with the thought of pushing harder again tomorrow. Maybe in hindsight my opinion of tempo should have been tempered down to endurance. This one, at times, felt like I was going too hard for what was supposed to be an easier ride than yesterday.
Indeed, with a TSS very similar to yesterday I think I went too hard on this one:
But yeah, shortly after turning back for home I knew the ride was going to go down hill. It’s never good when you have a 4×4 sat facing you, them on the wrong side of the road, staring at you in absolute disgust that you would dare to cycle on the correct side of the road whilst they are out picking up their snot nosed kids.
Pah.
Anyway rather than whinge and moan, something I am exceptionally good at, I’m going to shut up and go and veg out on the iPad whilst my tea cooks.
So long.
