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hippy
Bad advice! I should have stayed on the beers in Prague. Knee started playing up after just 12 miles, so I sat up and was going to pedal back to Bentley. But, as I turned off the A31, I realised I'd feel utterly pissed off if I just did that - and it was a nice day, I was out in the country with a bike, and knee was ok when out of the aerobars. So I went for a ride in the lanes.
There was some running event on with arrows, so I followed them for a while until they disappeared. Did a few inevitable main road bits but lots of quiet villages and deserted lanes. Even had a ford at one point (which I walked round as I reckoned the water might unstick my wheel covers). Came back via other lanes and then re-found the runners' arrows. Then the runners, hundreds of them all over the road - with helpers diving across to give them drinks. Negotiated that and got back to Bentley with just over 50 miles, in a minute under 3 hours. At least I'd had an enjoyable ride - and might not have been much quicker if I'd stayed on the course.