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TL; DR 85 windy fixed miles along the welsh border.
My ride this weekend was one of those self-gratifying trips down memory lane. I decided as I was going back home for the weekend, I would ride around some of the dull welsh border towns I used to spend all my time in.
I started the route on the fairly flat route out to wales, marvelling that I didn’t have to spend the obligatory 40+ minutes of fighting through city traffic to get to the country lanes, as I was already in them!
First 30 miles were fairly flat and set a decent speed out to my friends house in Meifod, enjoying lots of little quick inclines and descents. Arrived at my friends house at midday, to be told that some soup and bread had just been made! Ended up sitting around chatting and eating for two hours.
Left the house stuffed full of food with sleepy legs. And then got in to the hilly bit.
By this point the wind at picked up, and I started cursing not having brought gears, each incline seemed to take massive effort and slowed to crawl on quite a few. Luckily I brought my mp3 player with me, I never usually listen to music, but putting on some punk gave me the energy to continue and got me pedalling in a rhythm that carried me through the rest of the ride.
Along this part of the route I went past friends houses and a river we used to swim in, and a realised that life was pretty idyllic. A lovely area to grow up, and probably bring kids up one day.
Got in to my next stopping point of Bishop’s Castle, one of those bizarre hippy towns dotted round the country that the world seems to have passed by. Had a pint at the awesome http://www.threetunsbrewery.co.uk/ and set off quickly as I was running late.
The rode to Church Stretton, but by the time I got there, my legs were too tired to attempt riding over the Long Mynds (sorry pete!) and I had to blast it along an A road back to Shrewsbury to get home for a family meal.
This ride made me regret having wasted the opportunity to ride this lovely area every week, any of your rural people really should appreciate what you have!
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