Headed out at 9 with shaun for a road ride, with a 60 miles in mind with plenty of hills. Went over to ramsbottom up lumbcarr road and over the tops to haslingden, through rawtenstall, waterfoot, bacup and over the big climb to todmorden. Flew into Hebden bridge with a tailwind, usually we would head up cragg vale but i got a book before xmas with the 100 best road climb in the uk in, and one was just down the road from where we were. It was pretty hard to find i used my gps to get us to it which included a extra big climb before it to luddenden. The climb wasnt as bad as i though it was going to be it was just long with hairpin corners being the steep bits (around 25% gradients).
Top of the climb
We dropped down into sowerby bridge and headed over to ripponden on the a58, up the big climb to Blackstone edge with a killer head wind all the way, back through Rochdale, Heywood and finishing at home. Just over 60 miles with 4300 feet of climbing.
Time to take it easy now and rest before Strathpuffer.
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