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Today's target was to ride into work and back and get a big bike day in the bag. The driving route into work is down 2 main fast, single carriage way national limit roads (B1198 and A10).

Planned the route avoiding these roads as much as possible but the only realistic way for today was to go the main roads to Royston and then back roads to work, only avoiding the A10.

Set off 8.30 and gently plodded out of Cambourne at 15 mph. Nightmare at 2 miles the Garmin decided it was full and wouldn't play ball so had to stop, delete everything (including what I had already done) then start again. Ride down to Royston via bassingbourne was OK, not too many cars on the road. It's a hilly route but I was taking it easy.

Through Royston and then a mega tough segment through Barley to Barkway. Eased off through to Dassells & Broughing, down to Puckeridge and across the A10 to the old A10. Tough ride up to Thunderidge then a mega quick ride down through Ware pretty much all the way to the office.

Stopped for a quick snack in Barley and also when chain came off (twice). Also stopped in Thunderidge at the church where my old coach Ken Leader si burried at to pay my respects. RIP Gaffer.

Here's the Strava details -

Good day at work with plenty of lunch. Felt a bit wobbly but still set off for the ride home. Was a bit worried how the body would hold up but all in all didn't feel too bad.

Ride home was uphill through Ware to Thunderidge, this was a tough ride. Really worked just to keep moving at some points. Ride down across the A10 was OK then Puckeridge and villages was starting to really slow at the tops of the climbs. Main trouble was keeping any kind of speed up at the tops of hills. Did find that I recovered OK to be fair but main trouble was quads just don't have enough strength yet. These 2 rides were by far the hilliest I have ridden so far so it's not too bad I guess.

Fast ride down through Barley to Royston and then a really good pace all the way to Arrington - high 18-20 mph on the flat showing that my speed is not diabolical when I am not going up hill!

3/4 really big hills up to Longstowe which I was barely moving up but once I hit the longstow drag I picked the pace up.

Quads gave up through Caxton but off the roundabout I hammered 21-22 mph back to Cambourne. Easy ride back to Greens and had a coffee and cake :)

Happy with this ride home as it was slightly longer and slightly (1 min) quicker than the ride in. Big lurning curve on the bike as I simply don't have the strength or speed YET! 16.7 miles in the first hour so close to 18 mph for the second hour NICE!

Strava details -

Short ride cool down. Days stats were 34.50 miles @ 17.2 mph, 34.65 miles @ 17.4 mph, 1.5 miles @ 15 mph.