The heavy snow turned to ice by this morning,but to be fair to the council they have been along with the plough and gritted which is a first for this winter down my lane ! I'm not sure what the temperature was this morning but the forecast was for it to get no higher than -1 all day. I'm guessing at 10am this morning when i set off on the bike it was no more than -4. I went to see a friend who is a teacher who's day of schooling was cancelled this morning. Went on the single speed mountain bike. A good tool in this weather as you can only get up to about 14/15mph without spinning out,that's about as fast as you want to go with the wind chill. I was starting to get a headache half way due to the cold ! miles - 18.82
time - 1hr 31
ave - 12.4mph
climb - 1080'
Very cold to state the obvious,very steady and restricted due to one mountain bike gear (32~16) and the fact i was braking on the descents to restrict wind chill to a minimum.
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