Today's Bike Ride

[Hanneke]

Bit of a Mid Wales hill-fest today. Out for 5hrs 15, 77 miles of hills. Big loop from Brecon over Upper Chapel, managed to avoid getting shot by the military, then over to.......Abergwesyn and you know what comes after that.....Devils Staircase, Gammalt and all the climbing round Llyn Briane to bring you back down to Moley's vomit Lane to Llandovery. Then a chug back to to Brecon.
I need a beer!

< bows down to the King of the Mountains >

Wow, brilliant ride Toff... Must have been hard work in the heat?

I only rode to Abergavenny to discuss my chainset option for the TdG with the guys at M&D.... Then I TT-ed it up the A465 to the doctor's in Ewyas Harold, where I needed to get a medical certificate for the Everest Marathon, so I thought I'd impress the doc my arriving in my cycling gear... It worked, he thought I was fit, rather than mad, and I have my piece of paper

Then cycled home over the Col du Bryn... and promptly dunked myself into the river Monnow after that... Lovely it was too, having a little swim in the early evening sunlight overlooking Hatterall Ridge... Beats any swimming pool hands down AND it is in my back garden as well... Pitty it is not often that it is warm enough to swim in the river...

Life is just prefect on days like these!

Now sat in my garden, overlooking the same hills, with a beer, waiting for my food to be ready