I went on my first skate of the year yesterday, and what a way to start. It was the 5th Aniversary of the friday night skate, so they were doing a monopoly board skate i.e. visiting all the locations on the board. The route was 22 miles starting at hyde park corner and finnishing near tower bridge having just viseted old kent road. At one point whilst going along Pentonville Road (long and uphill!) I was wondering if I was going to be able to make it past the seccond stop, but the free redbull at the stop gave me the energy to complete the route. This made be happy, but oh did I ache thismorning.
I had planned on going on the wednesday skate so that I could ease myself back in by doing a slightly shorter route, but I instead ended up staying in the union at council to see what the outcome of the smoking ban paper would be . In the end it was passed with a minor amendment.