Last Night’s Bike Ride
In another motivational aberration brought on by the #June100 Challenge, I had pasta alfredo early last night, got changed and snuck (is that the past tense of sneak?) a quick hour on the Focus Fat Boy before the 9pm watershed.
My favourite loop is about 7.5 miles, to Hollingworth Lake and back along the Rochdale Canal. That’s not far enough, except as an excuse for tea and cake up at t’Lake.
If I go via Milnrow, it raises to 9.3 miles or so. Tantalisingly close to double figures. So my last couple of rides have included an extra lap round the Lake to get me over 10 miles.
Last night, I took a detour at the beginning of my ride, along a tarmac farm road between Firgrove Playing Fields and then alongside a brook that runs towards Milnrow. Anything to avoid the main road, which is as dull as The Daily Politics on BBC1. Combined with 2 laps of Hollingworth Lake, this added up to a slightly more useful 11.41 miles, which brought me in at 57 minutes with tired legs. Ideal!
The only downside was that it was quite gusty, so my maximum speed pedalling on the big ring down the hill, away from the Lake was a bit pants.
Average Speed 11.9 mph
Maximum Speed 24.9 mph
Ascent/Descent 370 m
Calories Burned 753
Have a look at the route here if you fancy:
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