And when you're on a bike, you're in the middle of it. Monday night ride home, raining when I left work, raining when I reached the half way point, still raining when I arrived home. Everything was soaked, at least the rain hood for my back pack keeps the rain out.
That's another 21km chalked up in preparation for the trip to Paris. 40km for Monday, rest Tuesday, back on the bike Wednesday, 80km this week.
Day 1 ride, found a map showing how tough it's going to be getting out of Blighty. MapMyRide says there are 5 category 5 climbs on the route shown. This means great pain. Mostly because the west side of London doesn't have that many hills and gentle climbs just on 400 metres in length don't prepare you for the reality of this nastiness.
At least the northern parts of France are nice and flat!
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