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Rich has a wedding to go to in Bath this weekend, so headed off on Friday to cycle there by himself. There's been no reply to txts asking how he got on, so he's either having a great time or he's fallen into another hedge.

Ian and I made a slow start to Saturday, having got another puncture on the way round to Eastleigh!
The plan was to find some hills, and the route out from Winchester to Fareham duly obliged. 30 miles of ups and downs! In a tribute to Lance Armstrong we turned around at the bottom of a couple of the longer hills and cycled back to the top.

Passing by some road works we had no option but to pass over some hot and sticky new tarmac. Over the next half mile we managed to pick up every little bit of dirt and stone we passed over!

We started to take it easier later on, and when we found ourselves mincing around eating several cereal bars each, then txt-ing and calling people, we thought it was about time to make a start homewards.

We did find the strangest cycle path though. Heading towards Petersfield from the south a nicely signposted cycle path suddenly diverts you onto the A3 dual carriageway. Cycling along beside speeding cars may not be something you bargained for on a relaxing days cycle round the country side!



One of my gear cables went 'ping' on the way home, leaving me the choice of two very hard gears for the last 15 miles. Luckily I wasn't wearing the heart rate monitor so it couldn't complain about the absurdly high heart rate I had for the last 10 of those miles.