this week's ride..

I haven't been posting as much as I could, mostly due to work commitments which have left me feeling pretty drained, as well as rather discouraged about things in general. Anyway:

That's the ride, that is. Once again, I've been using My Tracks on my mobile, but I've noticed that it seems to be doin weird things when I put it into Google Earth - the elevation profiles seem to be out of kilter in particular. For example, Cookley Green seems to be a varying heights above sea level. Since I don't think this region of the world is undergoing much in the way of tectonic movement, it would appear that the GPS is dodgy. I was quite pleased with this ride, as it was 50 miles in 3:47, on the hottest day of the year so far.

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This week's route:

I've also included the elevation profile for this ride - as you can see, Cookley Green/Christmas Common is pretty much the peak for this ride, although there's a very tough uphill on the way to Henley - one that goes past a vineyard. This was a decent run of 42 miles, but I had been hoping for something a little longer. The weather forecast, however, militated against it, so settled for what turned out to be a verys satisfying ride.