PGT Day 12 - Monsoon, Thunder and Bike Change

Short, easy day today. A work visit to Rugby took care of the morning (and the best weather), and Finn's cough is worsening again necessitating the enforcement of a bike ban, so my plan was to do a half hour afternoon ride to All Saints School for a Jubilee Event, then to ride another half hour route home. Sadly a massive downpour that gravitated into a thunderstorm whilst at school put paid to the return journey, which consequently took place later on my mudguarded bike. I didn't want to take too much out of my legs today (nor get my bike filthy and de-lubed) as I'm off to London tomorrow for the annual Team Real Peloton bike ride. The team was originally "created" by Ned Boulting and Matt Rendell on their irreverent cycling podcast to coax a few listeners into doing the 2010 Tour Ride - 110 hilly miles in Devon. Tomorrow's trip will be my first 50 miler in one single ride since my bowel op in January, so it's a bit of a milestone I'm aiming at, but it's also a chance to hook up with mates for a natter whilst riding a bike around new roads (Toy's Hill has been mooted), and watch some bike racing (Tour Series in Canary Wharf).

That's it, early to bed ready for an early start and probably a late finish. This time tomorrow I will be chugging coffee as if my life depended on it which, in some ways, it does - don;t want to doze off on the M40 after all.

Steve