Sunday, 25 May 2008

Hangover on the WYCR

Last night was Eurovision - and we had our usual party in honour of all things European and kitcsh!

Unfortunately, drinking tumblers of saffron gin at 2am in the morning was not good preperation for this morning's ride.

We had some friends over today, and Jason is planning to do a London to Paris ride in July so is trying to get some miles in. Our cunning plan was for me to cycle over to Brighouse (where Jason lives) and cycle back with him whilst his wife and family drove over to meet us at our place.

This was so I get some big miles in and we get our ride out of the way so we could do something with our families in the afternoon.

But I was still drunk setting off, and Jason ended up riding out to meet me (near Odsal), and then we headed out via Queensbury and Denholm to Haworth. We then picked up the West Yorkshire Cycle Route from Haworth and headed north and home. It actually ended up being a really interesting ride with some challenging climbs on some new roads I hadn't been on before. About 50 miles altogether.

Garmin put at: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5771030

Jason enjoyed it too, although I don't think he was too used to so many climbs - but he climbed really well and looked good.

For the rest of the day we picnicked and explored and played football in the park and had a generally top day (with the 6 kids between both families). Lots more beers and food as well.

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