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Ealing Beer Festival!
Yep and Perivale Brewery had a fayre and we went and saw Garbage play at Kew Gardens and then we were out last night at Santa Maria with some mates. So yeah, I've probably doubled my calorie intake in beer alone last week.
I copied my route from TCR5 but there's another road which runs even closer to the A1. Back then one of them was a construction site but I don't remember much about it. I don't think either has streetview for a bunch of it so I'll probably have two routes and pick which ever one isn't gravel bullshit.
I've got my meralgia back (hip problem) which is getting right on my tits. It was a big problem for me during 24hr racing but I'd fixed it (well, Scherrit had fixed it) but since I swapped saddles (and messed with his position) it's come back after TP.
I'm going to take some ibuprofen today to see if it helps. I hope it doesn't because I don't want to take that shit during races.
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Ealing Beer Festival!
I managed to avoid that potential trap by taking daughter down on the bike seat to Richmond Park to see the deer. Only I thought there weren't going to be any deer - which would not have gone down well - but luckily there were a couple of herds just before we left the park. Back home by the Thames path and River Brent gave me an extra session of gravel training on a fully-loaded bike.
A1 is definitely not rideable. There is either one or two roads that run parallel. As far as I can see they are both open to bikes.
The guy at W5 Physio's wife comes from Serbia so I was talking about the race. He said that the A1 has tolls so the parallel roads have a lot of traffic from people who don't want to pay.