Last night’s ride turned out to be awe­some fun, as it was pour­ing down mer­ci­lessly the whole time. As a res­ult, Hyde Park was thor­oughly deser­ted, and I enjoyed mean­der­ing across four miles of what is rap­idly becom­ing my favour­ite part of the city, passing only the occa­sional soggy jogger.

Getting home was even more fun, as I hadn’t real­ised there’s a reas­on­able down­hill gradi­ent along Bayswater Road. I man­aged to get from Queensway to Shepherd’s Bush in about five minutes, over­tak­ing (and gen­er­ally annoy­ing) a fair num­ber of buses along the way.

Weather’s look­ing about the same for this even­ing, and I’m think­ing of push­ing the route out to about 12 miles, assum­ing noth­ing else comes up.

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