Beautiful day here. Meeting some friends for the ride home from town tonight. In & Out is about 120km with 2 x 250m climbs near home, and it’s relatively hot plus I had the 2.5kg laptop to cart in today so I decided to take the detour which gets me a train at 0608, early enough that you’re allowed bikes on it, avoids the hills, and takes about 20km off the ride (though very little time off the journey, interestingly) leaving a decent 100km round trip.

Left 2-3 minutes late so had to rush. Decent pace but too hot when I arrived. Luckily my carriage was empty for the first stop so I could stick my face against an open window and only look an idiot to the CCTV.

Thought I’d take the remaining leg through the park and into the city nice and easy but as usual, the riverside peloton and traffic light sprints got the better of me. Won though. Fastest other two guys didn’t employ the same level of cunning at a couple of junctions 😄