10 Miles Everyday Three - Day 300!!

10 Miles Everyday Three - Day 299

10 Miles Everyday Three - Day 298

10 Miles Everyday Three - Day 297

10 Miles Everyday Three - Day 296

Wanted to do some daylight riding for the first time in a what feels like months, the first issue was I left later than I wanted to do only got a little daylight and was pretty dark by the time I reached the canal. I had decided to extend the canal part of my route by a few miles which was a big mistake as the tow path got almost unridable at one point due to the mud and subsidence where I nearly fell off about 30 times... which brings me nicely onto the fact I did fall off, at speed in the mud! 

As I joined the the canal after the steep drop near the blisworth tunnel I was chugging along trying to pick up some speed through all the mud, my glasses steamed up and I couldn’t see which resulted in me going off course. My front wheel slid of one of the wood liners next to the tow path then dug into some deep mud sideways on catapulting me over the handle bars landing in a load of deep sludgy mud on my back!

I jumped back on an continued past my usual exit bridge and into the worst tow path in history, after I exiting the canal I then travelled up the fake Birds Hill for the first time ever WHICH SUCKED! And nearly killed me.

I could hear many thorns and sticks stuck in my tyres hitting the road so I knew it was about to get worse. About 3 miles from home down a pitch black muddy backroad I got a puncture which I had to stop and change. The tyres were thick with mud as was pretty much the whole bike so I got absolutely covered, the worst thing other than the pitch black and mud all over the bike and me was the fact it was ABSOLUTELY FREEZING OUT! So I froze to death as well.

I just about managed to get the tube changed and pumped up with my incredibly inadequate little pump I carry and set off.

Half a mile later the front tyre was flat again! I’m guessing I didn’t manage to clear all the thorns or the tube got pinched against the rim.

I stopped and pumped it up again with the horrendously inadequate pump (which is a workout in itself).... something I had to do a further 6 times in the last couple miles home! All in the pitch black freezing cold muddy hell!

It’s fair to say I was relieved to get home, WORST. RIDE. EVER!!!!!!!!

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