Well I'm actually already in London, but as this is a review of yesterday you'll just have to understand what I'm getting at!
Yesterday started terribly. After such a great welcome to Bedford, the difference was horrendous. You remember that wind I rode into the whole way from Reading? Well that turned arpund completely and carried a load of snow with it!
I fought my way to Stotfold to find Vicky Pendleton's postbox, however I found literally nobody willing to brave the cold so had to take a pic myself...
From there a truely disgraceful journey over to Elsenham followed, it appears nowhere on this God forsaken rock has any inclination of warming up. It's freaking April, stop being freezing! I reached Ben Maher's postbox and went to Yeomans Bistro to warm up...
Spicy parsnip soup later I hit the road again down to Harlow to find one of Laura Trott's boxes and the weather actually started to not be dire...
From there a hop onto the A10 for a few miles to Cheshunt to find her second one...
For some reason Laura Trott's (and Vicky Pendleton's) post boxes seemed to be tucked out of the way somewhat. No idea why, but when all the others are on a main road, the relative remoteness seems a little disrespectful.
From Cheshunt I got back on the A10 again, exiting at Enfield and finding Charlotte Dujardin's second postbox...
After that it was a simple game of traffic dodging, making my way onto the North Circular to Muswell Hill and finding my friends house.
As they say, all's well that ends well and my last couple of hours riding, followed by a top evening with a good friend and a few really lovely tweets from Charlotte Dujardin and some other, less famous but equally appreciated, followers and supporters made up for a pretty bad day in the saddle.
Today should be a good one. Meeting a Twitter follower @MiddleRinger around lunchtime, collecting a few postboxes in London before heading over to Camberley where my sister did her officer training at Sandhurst. Seven postboxes on the way today, which really brings the outstanding totally plummeting.
8 days to go...
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