Just a short missive from Yorkshire today. Well on one of the best May BH Sundays ever (sunshine, blue skies, no wind or clouds - unheard of for a UK BH!) i'm pleased to relate that I completed the 2000+m of climbing squeezed into 129 Pennine kilometres in a time of 5hrs 30mins. Not too shabby for an old git and I didn't resort to walking anywhere despite grades in the high teens and low twenties (1 in 4 ish if you are old skool on these things.)
The pros were complaining of having 6 big climbs today - we had twice that number and we don't get paid to ride them! I did end up with some interesting tan lines but not quite as tender as in Germany.
After a celebratory beer at the finish I rode the extra 6km up (yep another 240m) to my daughter for a shower and GC hugging time.

So that's what I did on my BH Sunday - legs ache a bit now! Glad it's a month until the next metre grabbing event out of Skipton on the other side of the Yorkshire Dales.

I promise no stupid mountainous ride at the the proposed Gaby Cyclefest!

Anyway,
Ttfn
Mads