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@bigpaintbrush
I did indeed duck out of Saturday's roll with Benj. Sorry dude but I'm pretty much bored of riding inside a cloud. Looked at the forecast for today (sun!) and being self employed I decided to take advantage of one the few perks this affords me and hit the road on a Monday morning. Take that 'The man'! My first ride in two weeks and I felt as weak as a kitten. An unforgiving and seemingly constant headwind didn't help, but still, I was rubbish. My legs felt like wet sponge and my lungs seemed to contract to the size of satsumas. Managed to grunt and mentally cajole my way around 70 odd miles of partially flooded Essex countryside, taking in a few hill reps along the way. Crap average speed, everything ached, I felt terrible on the bike, came home and slept for two hours in the middle of the afternoon. It was ace.