Stonehenge

Stonehenge! My riding buddy Pete suggested we should do a long ride to Stonehenge one weekend, and this was the weekend we chose. The weather was perfect; cool, dry, and slightly cloudy but with plenty of patches of blue sky.

The two of us took a train from London Waterloo south west to Basingstoke, then got on our bikes and cycled to Stonehenge & back along very quiet country back roads. It was almost dead calm the whole day, and we set a cracking pace through the rolling countryside. There were a few long hills, but nothing particularly steep. The roads were well surfaced and smooth, which makes a big difference to the patchwork quilts that pass for roads in central London.

We arrived at Stonehenge, after a couple of slight detours due to poor road signage, with 75km on the odo. We kept on our proper route on the way back, and finished the day with 142km on the odo at an average speed of 26 km/hr. All in all a very enjoyable training ride.