Today, Sunday 31st January, was supposed to be the re-run of the Whitegate Xmas Audax postponed due to bad weather on the Sunday prior to Christmas.
Having spent most of yesterday faffing, getting cold weather gear together etc, the car was loaded last night ready for an early off this morning.
Not to be. Snow overnight, and more forecast meant that we bottled out. As did most others it seems.
Never mind. Better a missed ride than 3 months of missed rides waiting for bones to heal.
300 miles for January, down on last year, but last year wasn't quite as cold.
Hopefully we'll make it out for a longish one on Saturday and I shall do the Stratford CC reliability ride next Sunday. 54 miles of Cotswold loveliness. Looking forward to it.
Update on the update of tubeless tyres!
5 months ago
It's very persistent this icy weather isn't it and agreed best to be safe. The ride through the Cotswolds sounds beautiful, what a great part of the world to cycle round.
ReplyDeleteCertainly is but, in retrospect, not riding was absolutely the right decision.
ReplyDeleteOnly 17 turned up, of whom 5 failed to finish. Of those, 1 fell after 20km landing on a shoulder and felt sufficiently bruised to return to the start, only to fall again half way back and suffer a double break of one ankle.
There, but for the grace of god, and a healthy amount of worry, go I.
Ouch. You definitely made the right decision. It would break my heart to get injured now and not be able to progress.
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