Cycling1:39:10 [4] 21.1 mi (4:42 / mi) +568ft4:35 / mi
Cycle ride mainly for mental well being after fraught visit to London yesterday, a sunny morning helped too. Home, Okehurst, Gibbons Mill, Bucks Green, Tismans Common, Loxwood, Ifold, Kirdford, Wisborough Green, Newpound, Home.
Cycling1:37:21 [4] 19.9 mi (4:54 / mi) +525ft4:46 / mi
Billingshurst to Rudgwick and back A272 to Okehurst Lane, Gibbons Mill loop, Bucks Green, Loxwood Road to Mucky Duck, Hornshill Lane, Cooks Hill, Baynards, Cox Green, Lynwick Street and return past The Blue Ship, Okehurst Lane and home. Very strong gusts heading S-SW but still managed a better time than 4 weeks ago. No rain but feet were soaked and frozen by the end due to spray coming up from puddles.
Cycling1:27:44 [4] 16.93 mi (5:11 / mi) +774ft4:58 / mi
From home, Newbridge, Newpund Common, Wisborough Green, Kirdford, Balls Cross, Petworth, Shopham Bridge, Fittleworth Stores. Very blustery and roads were flooded in low lying areas near rivers. Gave up waiting to be made a coffee, they take too long. San Pelegrino instead which was refreshing.
1 PM
Cycling1:13:50 [4] 15.28 mi (4:50 / mi) +413ft4:43 / mi
Fittleworth, Coldwaltham, Greatham, Cootham, Storrington, West Chiltington, Broadford Bridge, Marringdean, home. Got caught in a a heavy downpour heading back from West Chiltington with hail.