Matt - 30 March

2 weekends and 2 group rides due. 2 weekends passed and no group ride has happened. Last weekend we were called off by the snow and this weekend unfortunately Cleve had to pull out (i say chickened out but he says that he is truly dissapointed to have missed the ride!!).
Fortunately for me though, it snowed last weekend. I havent been able to ride as dedicated as i would have liked due to pulling a muscle in my back (sitting on the settee!).

Even though the group ride hasnt happened, today Jon and I still went out together. We started the morning with a big breakfast and on prepping the bikes we had given ourselves enough time to get ready to head off. We left the house at 8.30 and by 9.30 we had covered the same distance that a couple of months previous had taken several hours - a clear indication of how far we are progressing. We had 2 real stops to have our scheduled 'flapjack break' which does us all wonders and completed 36 miles with no real problem. Both of us didnt really feel that we were too tired and could have kept going - i am therefore really pleased at how well we are getting on. The most positive thing for me today was that there was no puncture!!!!! I did have a puncture the night before without even riding, but fortuantely no puncture on the ride!