3rd December: Finally, nice weather! The temperature was back up to bearable today, around 9° C, and the sky was largely blue with little wind so I took Awesom-O out for a spin. As it was so much warmer than it has been, I tried wearing just my Castelli Alpha jacket and it was actually OK although I don't think you could go any colder with it and stay comfortable.
I was going to do the usual, three ups and downs of the farm track, but at one point I saw a couple of horsists in the distance and decided I couldn't be bothered with the palaver of getting around them. I decided to divert and do most of the local twenty seven instead as it seems like ages since I last did it. It was pleasant enough and a bit of a celebratory ride as it was the ride I successfully reached my annual mileage target of 2,400 miles so anything else this year is a bonus! 20.6 more miles.
27th December: Finally, I got out again! We had ten days of very cold, dank, wet weather followed by a week of sub-zero temperatures (it dropped to -14 °C in one village is Shropshire!). I then upgraded my PC after seven years (i5-8600k and DDR4 2666 replacing i5-760 and DDR3 1333 for the win!) which lost a few more days and then, finally, Christmas. Anyhow, today was cold, maybe 2-3 °C, and very windy but the skies were blue and the sun was out so I took Awesom-O out and did three ups and downs of the farm track. I was worried about being out of shape but, apart from feeling a bit short of breath for the first ten miles, I actually felt good. Anyhow, 25.4 more miles.
Well, I didn't get out much over Christmas for the usual reasons so 2017 goes out with a fairly respectable mileage of 2,432.6 which I don't think's too shabby!
