A Tuesday evening ride again this week - I am beginning to rather enjoy these. Last night's was a little different in that I was on my own. Still, undaunted I set off alone into the darkness. The proposed route was my old favourite of Barden - Embsay. Felt a little tiredness still in my legs from Saturday when I started but this soon faded and I settled into that usual lone-rider rhythm, you know where you think you're going steady, but when you check the time you've actually been storming round.
Got onto the Halton Height climb, slipped into my usual gear for this ascent, but found I was spinning wildly, so shifted up a notch. It felt great to be able to do that. Performed a very cautious descent as no cars had passed me for quite a while and I didn't want to come off on my own in the dark!
Fast back along the road through Halton East to Bolton Abbey, then a thought occured to me. "It's not even 9 o'clock yet, why not do the Addingham - Turner Lane climb as an extension to finish". Brilliant set myself another challenge. Again slipped up into a higher gear than usual and it seemed to be over very quickly.
A very pleasing result. Going out tomorrow morning with the earlybirds - we shall see how that goes...
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