June 22 2007. You're never alone as a 'Mo. Leaving Bristol in full London Dynamo livery - including temporary leg tattoos - I spotted clubmate Alex and stopped for a brief chat. Heading for the Severn Bridge I experienced local humour first hand as a sign turned the wrong way added a couple of miles to my route. Riding down the very pretty Wye valley I caught up with some soldiers on a motley assortment of bikes. Chatting with their officer produced the day's second coincidence - he was a regular rider in Richmond Park and used to race in the Surrey League.
Any sense of superior fitness I might have entertained having caught them was quickly dispelled as they explained they were cycling from Bosnia to Bangor as part of a recruting drive. They then casually threw in that they had kayaked across the channel and run the leg from Dover to London - and this from a bloke wearing trainers riding a mountain bike with flat plastic pedals. A humbling experience.
77.4 miles, 14.6 mph
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