Just watched forecast. Not good generally. More excitingly, it turns out there was a severe weather warning issued today for the area i cycled through. Not having much luck with the old british weather. Anyhow, provisioak revised plan for tomorrow is to get up early, verify the forecasts claim of a mostly dry morning in this specific area, and then dart 30m up the road to ross on wye. Might have to stay put there if the weather is bad.
Day: May 14, 2009
Begone Bristol
Bristol is not my favourite place. Today it rained since noon until i arrived at 6pm. All my riding clothes are soaked. Will look at forecast and see if it’s sane to ride tomorrow. I have a towel rail, a hairdryer and some towels to work a dehydration miracle with.
Ah, the photo. After hours in the rain, several wrong turning, too much busy bristol traffic and one close shave with a van, i wasn’t in the best of moods. The directions said ‘turn into the northward lane’. When i did, i was met with this sight blocking the road. I had to laugh.
Cheddar gorge
Prob the photo is rotated, still haven’t figured fix for that! After the first 3 days, Cheddar gorge seemed more like a gentle incline! The first two corners were steeper but the rest was a spinning slope up to about 220m. It was like some kind of ‘well done, you passed the test’ thing. 🙂 i’m having lunch in chew magna. Not long since 2nd breakfast, but places stop serving at 2 so i need to refuel before then. Target tonight is the Severn Bridge and Chepstow.
Epic gps fail
I don’t know why, but it appears that the routes i have on my gps for day 4 to day 7 are just copies of day 3’s route. I meant to verify each and every route once i’d put it onto the gps but ran out of time. It’s not the end of the world. I still have my road map, plus google maps on my phone. But it is a big pain.
I’m in Cheddar just now having food before the climb up the gorge. Much flatter today as promised, and i’ve been whizzing along at 18mph or so.