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rive_gauche
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Not even a weekend, but for me, it's a great opportunity to ride on quiet road without traffic fucking it up like on a weekday, I always work weekend which is fine, but couldn't do ride with girlfriend, or go on club ride.
Decided to get out of bed at 7am to do 150km solo ride to Henley and back, could not do a full Century as I promised the girlfriend I'll be back by 1pm.
Today was gloriously horrid, it very much remind me of When The Wind Blows, landscape look scarred by a nuclear winter, surviving drivers hurriedly whizz by as if they've just managed to avoid the blast by driving under bridges, and a couple of elderly walking down the road with potatoes sack on their head.
It's cold, I kept thinking about being in bed instead of doing a bicycle ride right from leaving the house waiting for the GPS to be kick in, handlebar mount snapped, rat, quick fix with spare laminated toe strap helped.
Still too cold, just it's not getting any better with the sun almost invisible by the grey cloud, even after Henley, stop at Sonning's petrol station to grab a small piece of carrot cake and a couple of chocolate bar to store.
Did not like Drift Road at all, it's nice and straight, sure but the main reason is that it's a perfect road for drivers to hit someone and claim they didn't see them.
GPS tell me to go through Windsor Park, didn't really draw the route properly not realising there's a no cycling section, no problem, I'll just do a big loop round it.
GPS keep telling me to go back to the original place where I left, 10km down, still telling me this, fustrated, pull over several time to try and stop it rerouting, end up missing a turn, went back, after 20 minutes it finally follow my route.
Home stretch was lovely, about 30km/h from Sunbury to Wimbledon.
3/10, would not do again.
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