Activity
First cycle ride in months
Cycling
10 Oct 2016
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14.2 miles
Distance
1h 20m
Moving time
10.6 mph
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20.7 mph
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- Description
- First bike ride in a very long time. Only as far as the Countess Wear swing bridges over the Exeter Canal. Work is about half way through the 14 month schedule of work on the swing bridge / roads. As per the pictures, one of the bridges was open because of the work. The swing bridges are being retained but re-aligned during the work. The bridges have history - there's a plaque on them that reads "In May 1944, these bridges played an important part in the preparations for D-Day. They were used over a period of three days and nights, for rehearsals of the famous and crucial glider borne attack on the bridge over the Canal de Caen (Pegasus Bridge) and the River Orne (Horsa Bridge), by the Second Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on the night 5/6 June 1944"
- Start
- 10 Oct 2016 at 17:08:15
- End
- 10 Oct 2016 at 18:31:19
- Participants
- Aidan and Liz
- Tags
- Canal Exe Estuary Swing bridges