Leamington to Wendover

I completed a training ride from Leamington Spa to my sister's house in Wendover, Bucks.  I departed soon after first light and completed a total of 65 miles in five and half hours elapsed time at a moving average of 14.1 mph.  When I arrived, the weather was warm so I had a swim in my sister's outdoor pool.  Not quite an ice bath, but cool all the same!

An early morning view of the Grand Union Canal near Stockton

A thatched Oak Tree resting point at East Claydon

The Google Maps cycle route was great, including riding across grassy parkland in Aylesbury.  Top tip: if Google plans alternate routes, GPS Visualiser will arbitrarily pick up the first of them and I could find no way to choose which to save as a route.  To avoid this, add an interim destination to force Google to plan just one route (which GPS Visualiser will output as two parts).

Warwick Stockton loop after work training ride

Thanks to Matt, Stu and Adam from Apteco for another training ride last night.  We braved the rush hour traffic to leave Leamington to the east and loop round by Stockton.  Total of 32.9 miles in just over two hours at an average of 15.4 mph.

Bike good, legs good, front light batteries flat!  Learned how to use the GPS in the dark.

Leamington Spa to Farringdon

I completed a training ride from Leamington Spa to Farringdon yesterday morning.  It was my first long ride with the bike set up for LEJOG.  The route was from Google Maps, extracted with GPS Visualiser and loaded via BaseCamp.

The bike was good, legs good, GPS great, riding on the Fosse Way less so!

The ride was the same length as the shortest day on my LJOG route, but only had half the ascent of the first day!  You can see the full ride route and stats below: