Well I was passing through Annfield Plain today and it had stopped raining, sleeting, snowing with hail stones mixed in. I had a bike in the back of van so jumped on to the C2C and headed down to Birtley. My plan was to go down the line for 5 miles then back 5 miles then up to Consett for 5 miles and back again so if the heavens did open yet again I was not too far away from shelter. Well I headed off down the C2C with a good tail wind enjoying the sunny spells but it was getting darker and darker. Then it got brighter again so headed down to the new tunnel under the A1M which has reopened after being closed for a very long time. To be honest I was not impressed with the design or the quality of the engineering so turned and headed back up. Now I had the headwind and incline. On the plus side there was very few people out and about. The few that was out some were just plain ignorant, they would not move over an inch when I rang my bell and said excuse me! Dogs were running wild and the amount of dog doo on the line was unreal around South Pelaw area. Anyway I was just spinning past Beamish woods area and the heavens opened so I hid in one of the tunnels for 5 minutes or so until it blew over. By the time I got back to Annfield Plain I was rather damp and cold. The Garmin was reading 2.2 degrees and we are nearly into May, unreal.
Below are a few snaps from the ride, enjoy and hopefully more soon-
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| Time to ride down the Lambton Worm today |
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| and off its tail |
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| Full winter kit back on again today! |
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| This is the Lambton Worm on my Garmin map |
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