The 2013 bike ride

On Saturday my friend Paul and I cycled 211 km through Hampshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire.  Here's the route:

We set off at 5am in glorious early morning sunshine, and arrived back home at 5pm after an excellent but quite challenging ride.

Here are the stats:
Distance: 211.93 km
Travelling time: 9:35:25
Average speed: 22.1 km/h
Max speed: 61.9 km/h

Here's a profile of the route:

The hardest bit was heading south and immediately encountering Blowingstone Hill... and from there it was almost all in to the teeth of a brisk south-westerly wind.  It got easier on the big descent from Coombe Gibbet!

A fabulous day out!