That's All Folks!

This morning I completed my last training ride before heading out to Qatar next weekend. As well as my long standing training buddy, Sags, it was great to have Debs along as well. She was visiting Brampton for some Loggie Dining In night and was in remarkably good form considering the time she had got to bed the previous evening. It was a nice gentle run with a few efforts up the hills (OK, inclines). Sags was on his singlespeed but was moving along at a fair old pace. We had one particularly hair raising moment as we descended at a fairly rapid pace and came across a dog wandering in the road; I was travelling at close to 60kmh and the consequences of hitting a dog at that speed don't bare thinking about. We all got round it safely but whether the dog avoided the cars following closely behind us I don't know. In the end I clocked just under 63km in 2 hrs 16 minutes.

With the boys home from boarding school for the weekend we are having a nice family dinner tonight; it's surf and turf and I've been to the local butcher and have some lovely looking sirloin steaks sitting in the fridge. Pudding will be birthday cake as my eldest has his 15th birthday in a couple of weeks and of course I rack up my 45th in mid October.