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Being offically ‘old’ this year, it’s my ambition to ride the route know as the coast to coast before I become thirty. As part of that ambition, myself, Alan, and Brian did a training ride today along some of the excellent cyclepaths in the area. We were riding into the strong headwinds on the entire trip out, giving us an average speed of about 10mph, and at one point one of those old gnarly cyclists with legs like granite sped past us.
(I think we got pwned, but Brian says it’s something to look forward to – being old gnarly cyclists, that is, not being pwned)
On the way back we stopped off for a beer and burger combo at a Lloyds sports bar on Newcastle’s Quayside. Although it was only midday, already there was a hen party wearing masks at the bar. I felt a little self-conscious in my cycling gear, but mainly knackered.
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You forgot to say the way back was such fun, with the wind at our back we were averaging more like 20miles/hr! Made it all worthwhile.
(Checked the conversion online 1 miles/hr = 1.6 km/hr and the other way 1 km/hr = 0.62 miles/hr)
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