Vicki and I spent the weekend in the Bear Hotel in Woodstock just outside Blenheim Palace in order to ride the 60 mile sportive in the Blenheim Bike Festival.
I had hoped to get around in time to watch the start of the Brompton World Championships, but took a bit of a detour which added 10 miles to my distance and also had to stop and call an ambulance for a couple of guys who crashed into each other.
This turned out to be a good thing for me as it was at this point I realised I was on the 100 mile loop instead of the 60 mile route.
Anyway, without the delay, I think I would have made it back for the start of the Bromptons. As it was, I covered 69 miles in 4 hours and 18 minutes, which I was pretty pleased with.
And it was gorgeous route with fantastic weather and the festival itself was pretty cool.
Vicki rode with a friend of hers from work and managed not to get lost and finish within her personal goal time of less than six hours.
Oh, and I also managed to kill the battery on my garmin before I started. But I did track the route with the GPS on my phone and was thus able to provide the lovely map above.
And here's a video of the Brompton World Championships.
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