Great day; mixture of rain sun and of course the obligatory wind though not as bad as previous days . Cycled through the lovely shropshire countryside, and the historic towns of Shrewsbury, Church Stretton, and Ludlow. Got off the A49 and did a stretch on B roads which were infinitely nicer though a little hillier. Paul wanted to do time trials so we set off chasing each other. Met some guys ( end to enders) going north and they remarked that their average speed in headwind was 15 mph, Paul said," oh ours was 8!" He ( the roadie) then went on to say that a comfortable "chatting speed" was 20mph!
Anyway the last stretch to Hereford we did at chatting speed because Mike Lowe had sorted out a lovely room in his Hotel called the castle. Thanks to Mike we all had enormous bacon and egg butties before we set off into the Wye valley.
don't drink the water in camelford.it's full of aluminium! well it was last year!!
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