While out biking on Saturday their was a discussion about the quickest route from Waltham Abbey to Debden, Jay insisted that the road would be quicker, i thought the tow path back to Chingford and then by road to Debden would be the quicker (and safer) route, the only way to answer this question was to have a race.....
Being of a mildly competitive nature i went for it, flat out all the way to Debden, a couple of kamikaze manoeuvres on the 2 mini roundabouts in Loughton and some aggressive use of the pavement when cars or traffic lights got in the way....
But it wasn't enough, Jay beat me by 2 minutes!!! i had lost to a slightly (!) overweight bloke on a town bike, the shame of it all.....
Now as i said I'm not a competitive person (much) so the very first thing i did when i got home was to gps measure the 2 routes!! Jay's was 6.1 miles and mine was 9.6 miles!! so although i had lost by 2 minutes i had cycled 3.5 miles further so that helped to alleviate some of the shame.....
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