... my ass hurts!
OMG that was sooo hard. So hard in fact that I jacked it in at 45 miles. It was way too cold, hilly and long for this early in the year. My face has cold burn (I'll be permanently red!), my "flower" hurts, my legs kill, my eyes are burned out too from the cold. I've never seen hills like that! Who's idea was it??? O yes, it was Taff's idea. He's going to die.
I only made it up one of the "signficant climbs". The first one I walked about 10 yards and got back on, the 2nd one I stopped, but didn't walk, just started again (I don't think the chocolate cake I had eaten in the cafe at the bottom of the hill helped to be honest... I felt a tad sick) and the 3rd one... well, no one made it up that one! And I thought I was only 200 yards from the top when I started to walk (it went up round a bend and I couldn't see the end) but it turned out to be about another mile! There is no way in the world I would have made it up that far, at about 17% gradient too! Forget that... not even on my fit days! And to be honest, walking up took some effort I can tell you! Made me feel better that the guys didn't make it either.
The downhills weren't much better. Still icy where the sun hadn't yet hit, potholes and gravel. Not my kind of downhill, scared the wits out of me because the bike bounced around so much and I was on my brakes all the way. I think they've worn out! O how I long for the smooth grippy tarmac of France.
Undulating all the way. There were no flat bits, unless you count the last two miles I did. Then I was back in territory I'd ridden before and although I knew the last 30 miles were doable, because I've ridden that bit before, I had lost the will to live by then and jumped on the broom wagon with one of the guys. Quite honestly, if you're not getting sponsored then it's not worth going through all that unnecessary pain! They don't call it the "Mad March Hare" ride for nothing then!
So got back to my mum's had a bath, she cooked me a pie and then I drove home because I just want to get in my bed. Zzzzzzzzzzz
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I had a very similar ride this weekend too. My first hilly sportive / reliability. I think I clocked up just under 5000ft of climbing and felt every single of of them.
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