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Great work all! Especially impressed with people pressing out 110 miles fixed.
Got together with Benj and Bigpaintbrush for our own little 'reliability audax', the result being that we weren't all that reliable and we got lost. Great fun though, we were romping around Essex for five or six hours. Highlights include: an enforced stop at a tescos somewhere near Chingford so that Benj could rip a hole in the tights his wife had leant him (proper ladies semi opaque jobs to give him some more warmth under his bib tights) because they were causing havoc with his junk. Bigpaintbrush bought a massive loaf of malt bread and Benj made a slightly too public display of applying some vasiline to his nethers. The rest of the ride was a slow succession of near death icy / mech related experiences interspersed with the continued consumption of malt loaf, the spotting of a load of running deer in the snowy landscape (we clocked them at 15.5mph), the humbling acknowledgement that cigarettes, alcohol and seasonal inactivity X age = bonking really early into a not particularly challenging ride.
It was brilliant fun. Plus, we saw an ornamental fountain in Theydon Bois which had done something really bizarre and geological in the icy weather. The sort of thing we wouldn't have noticed at healthier speeds in mid summer obviously.
Think we might have caught the last of the romantic, snowy beauty out there yesterday if that rain storm last night was anything to go by. Really glad the others wouldn't let me off the hook when I tried to bail.