Can you please end the hosepipe ban? It’s pissed with rain pretty much every f*cking day since you introduced it. Am really starting to get fed up now. We appear to have had more rain in July than in the previous 6 months. I got home from my ride back from work wetter than if I’d just got out of a bath 
Pizza and 750ml bottle of Innis & Gunn Original well & truly earned.
New saddle, bartape and cables. I need to find a pink saddle. Anyone got any ideas?
Took advantage of the glorious hot, sunny weather to ride rather a long way today. Out to Altrincham, club run to near Tattenhall & back then the return trip home. 202km/125miles – my longest ever ride. Average moving speed was over 27kph – very happy with that, especially as I took the ride to Altrincham very steadily.
I was riding a Sabbath Mondays Child that I’ve borrowed for a few days. It really is a rather nice bicycle and I didn’t feel beaten up at the end of the ride. I am rather tired now though.
I set myself a target for this year of getting below 23 mins for the Seamons CC 8.75 mile time trial using a standard road bike. I did a couple last year with my best being a 23:26 on a borrowed £6000 superbike. This evening I recorded a 22:59 on my Tarmac. Yay! I’ve also managed to improve my time every time out this year.
It’s really nice to be able to wander into the garden and pick my own fresh veg 
Sometimes the weather behaves itself on my day off and I made the most of it today with a lovely 145km ride in glorious sunshine. The ice cream on Southport seafront was lovely too
Been doing a few local club evening TTs this year (and a couple last year) but tonight was the Championship 10. Unlike the other events which are 8.75miles (to allow for a straightforward out & back route) this was over a full 10 miles – my furthest ever time trial!
I started off reasonably well, managed to negotiate the tricky turns on the extra loop but everything came to a grinding halt when I got to the roundabout. I was confronted by a large HGV going slowly around the roundabout and was forced to stop. It probably cost me 15-20 secs as well as all my momentum. Oh well, will make it easier to beat my time next year! Finished quite strongly and ended up with a time of 26m38s which was good enough for 17th/33. Pretty sure that everyone ahead of me was on a TT bike or at least a road bike with tri-bars, I was just on my standard road bike so not bad going.
Thanks must go to the club members who did the start/finish/marshalling and to the guys from North Cheshire Clarion who came along to help marshal and take photos.
Thankfully I am on holiday for the 25mile championship – not sure I can race that far!
A splendid way to spend an afternoon.
