A gloriously sunny but deceptively cold day for todays bike ride. I didn't set off until midday to let the roads dry out a little, which they did. Out to Monyash and Longnor before the long climb up into the Staffordshire Moorlands, where there was a little black ice in the shade of some walls, and todays TP named Hill House which overlooks the village of Elkstone.

The 2 mile descent into Warslow chilled me to the bone and I struggled to get warm again for the rest of the ride home via Hartington, Flagg and Monyash.

Apart from a couple of hundred yards on grass to reach the Trig a tarmac ride totalling 36 miles, 3,419 feet in 2hrs 46 min.