Ride 21/05/2023

6 of us on the bun run this morning with a wet forecast I was on the winter bike and wet weather gear. It actually wasn’t that wet, it was mostly a drizzle with dry patched in between. Usual route to the cafe stop today, I didn’t bother starting early today as I was looking for a recovery ride after 4 days of hard riding. Steady pace to the cafe stop for coffee and cake and again a steady pace for most of the way home. I was with Ken today so we opted to go the coastal route back home, with Chris tagging along. So I was riding at the front now after spending a lot of the time at the back or middle of the group ride. Since I was leading out I kept a steady, but firm pace back to Dalgety Bay with some Tempo work back up to Crossgates. This was why the ride turned out to be faster than I thought it was going to be and a higher avg power, especially compared to yesterdays ride of over 18 mph for less power, this was probably due to a less hilly route. Anyway 55 miles clocked up at over 16 mph avg speed. So this will be the last bun run rides I do for 2 weeks as next week I’ll be doing the Ride London with the aim of cycling 100 miles in less than 5 hours, which equates to 20 mph avg or more, gonna need some good luck for that ride