I got a complement!
A young roadie on a nice CF bike pulled alongside me "You ride to York" I'm a bit taken aback "How do you know that?"
"I normally drive, I've seen you on the dual carriageway. You've got really good style."
Wow, I didn't know what to say. So I just said it was a product of being slow, so I'd learned to be efficient. He then told me I didn't look slow, he was heading back via the country roads and pulled away like I was standing still.
That's probably the first time someone has complemented me on my riding
I was very inspired by that, and I won't be on my bike for 6 days (donating blood tomorrow, then it's the bank holiday). So I trundled along at a good pace, 3 miles from home realised that if I kept up 20mph it would be a record run. Made it, 1hr 16min for 24.5miles. That's really scorching for me.