First 100 mile ride
Well I could not have picked a worse day. But it was scheduled.
Monday 27th, I thought I should familiarize myself with the last 50 miles of the ride, so John and Fleur waved me off from the Samson centre at 09:45, heading for Andover in the rain with a slight head wind.
By the time I reached Basingstoke I was very wet and a bit fed up, my average speed was low, under 16mph. I continued on the A30, which was a bit better, then on to the A303, this is where it got very interesting. The wind was coming from the south west, so most of the time I was getting blown in to the road, lorries and cars passing me at high speed leaving me struggling to stay on the bike in the turbulence.
The wind got worse, as did the rain, so when I saw the possibility of turning around at Forton I took it, little did I know that I was only three miles from my goal, I had 70km showing on my Polar CS200, but I figured it was to dangerous to continue. The return was much safer, the wind was still coming across me, but more from behind. The result being I went faster, and the only danger was of ending up in the ditch (better than under an HGV I suppose).
I decided at Odiham to make up some of the missing miles so did a couple of loops of the bypass.
Shortly after that having consumed almost three of my four bottles of High5 4:1, I tried my first ever " Maxim Energy Gel ", wow... I took off like a rocket, I arrived back in Guildford showing 150k about 94 miles on my clock, so headed for Woking. I covered 97 miles, all in all I was quite pleased with the ride, considering the adverse conditions, that is not to say I enjoyed it, bit too scary and wet, for that.
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