13 October 2007

11 October: Summer at Last

A lot has been said and written about our "awful" summer this year. It's not been awful! The only thing I might have a complaint about is the amount of hill fog that I've had to contend with, but I've not been weathered off once all year.

It's gone all warm and muggy on us this week, and tonight it's postively balmy down at Knight's Grange. On the run-in, I ask Dave H about the session as I've not done it before. He explains that it "might be a hill session, or maybe not". We're doing 10 reps of a circuit of about 600m, down by the big roundabout over the Weaver.

As it turns out, it is a hill circuit. I don't need the stats from the GPS to prove that: needing to drop into a low gear to make the climb is enough evidence of that! It gets hot and sweaty very quickly. I'm not on great form tonight, hardly surprising after nearly 40 miles already since Saturday, but it's still a useful session, and James is always a good guy to train with.

On the way back, we're entertained by a lit firework, or at least that's what it looked like, in the underpass. I guess everyone needs a hobby but...

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