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Into Exeter St Davids with Liz to pick up some train tickets. Coffee on the Quay on the way back (where police divers were searching the river for a missing person).

Slightly longer cycle ride today to make up for doing the last 2.5 miles yesterday by car (due to having broken three spokes on the rear wheel). So it was on the "spare bike" today which I hadn't ridden in about a decade…

Into Exeter with Liz

Into Exeter - just past St Davids

A ride along the estuary and canal into Exeter and back

Back into Exeter to buy a replacement car after our Citroen Xsara estate died after just 77k miles.

Into Exeter and back round Exminster gold course

Light winds on the way to the Quay and a head wind on the way back. New walking boots at Framers Friend. Wearing out the soles of walking boots every years must mean we are walking the dog too much.

Into Exeter with Liz (who put a bit of effort in for once). Mrs Lutzy was pleased to see us (but no kisses)!

Into Exeter with Liz

Ride in to Exeter with Liz to buy a new buoyancy aid. Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.

Start of a possible attempt to maybe get a little fitter. A twenty mile round trip ride into Exeter (Mill on the Exe area) and back again. The final climb back up Cockwood Hill nearly killed me.

Another ride into Exeter and back. Hard work!

Third day in a row of cycling into Exeter and back. Every day is getting harder - surely that's not right! A couple of "reading breaks" on the way back.

The fifth 20 miler of the week. I'd expected this to be a gentle cycle ride with Liz but she was all gung ho! Way faster than I was expecting and I wasn't allowed my usual stopping places to have a breather. This was the…

Out with Liz for another cycle ride into Exeter and back. Trying to "power" up the bridge at Powderham, I broke 3 spokes on the rear wheel. So the last 2.5 miles are Liz alone as she went home to get the car to rescue me…

Into Exeter with Liz after she finished work

With a stop for a late lunch at Mrs Lutzys

To pick up some bitumous paint

Liz's first time back on the bike at the tail end of a two week lurgy.

A windy ride into Exeter and back. Luckily the wind (F5 to F7 on Met Office forecast) was mostly on the side,

A windy ride into Exeter and back, Liz still in post lurgie mode.

To the Mill On The Exe and back

First ride in a fortnight - work and the weather put paid to the previous weekend.

Into work and then on to Exeter for Liz.

With Liz. Coffee at Mrs Lutzys

Back from the bike shop in Exeter after getting a new pair of Hope 20five wheels fitted to the bike. The bloody wheels originally supplied with the Triban died when a spoke pulled through a rim and shattered the rim. Goo…

Super fast on the way out. A bit slower on the way back. The last five miles were into a fairly strong headwind right on the nose. That and pouring rain and the cold put a slight damper on the last quarter!

A very fast (for me) ride out to Exeter (averaged 16.2mph - would have been faster but for the hordes of pedestrians on the last couple of miles) and a somewhat slower ride back into quite a strong head wind. Stopped bri…

Another "fast for me" ride into Exeter and back. Fast - as in more than 14mph average. There was a sod of a headwind on the way out so made up time on the way back (although I could swear that the wind changed direction…