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@Ndeipi
I'd planned to meet the group round the corner at 07:00. At 06:58 I picked up my bike (prepped it the night before) and my heart dropped as I felt the spongey wiggle of deflated rear tyre. Sent a hurried message "Puncture! You guys go and I'll try to catch you." Then I grabbed my spare tube from the saddle bag and saw that a hole had worn into it, from bouncing around the inside of the bag. Bollocks! So I patched it and swapped it in, and then had like 10+ minutes gap to close. Luckily I found a bus to draft on the first flat 5km and then there's a 25-30 minute climb at the start of this ride (and I'm very skinny) so I caught half the group on the ascent. Then on the return leg the sun came out, and descending that 25 minute climb was a glorious, twisty 5 minutes with cracking views.
60 km
2 h 25 m
1,159 m
9/10, will probably prepare badly again
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