I set of a bit earlier today to beat the rain and snow forceast by the BBC as 100% by 10.00am. Down to Youlgreave and then onto the A6 at Pickory Corner and on to Darley Dale. A right to Darley Bridge and over the still swollen Derwent and up to the hamlet of Crossgreen.

I don't like wearing a rucsack when cycling but today was an exception as I took a pair of Mizuno Wave Harriers which I changed into to run up the the steep bank, only a couple of hundred feet, to todays TP at Oker Hill. Along the ridge I could see Will Shores Tree which Wordsworth wrote a sonnet about, of the same name.

Back down to the road, and I was so glad that I had taken some running shoes as the hill was so frozen and slippery I would have struggled in my cycling boots! Aboard the Arkose and up the hill to Winster and then a 3 mile very cold descent back down to Pickory Corner where I turned left this time up the A6 to Bakewell and finally up the hill to home.

Only 20 miles, 1,667 feet in 1hr 31 mins which includes the run up Oker Hill. Only one other cyclist seen. Got home well before the rain/snow started at 12.30.

1000am 100% My arse!