How f'kin cold this morning!

[Kingy]

After a week of training inactivity I ventured out this morning. Not as early as usual as my hours have changed now so I'm in work at 8am rather than 6am. So a leisurely 5.30am set off to get the usual 24 miles in, then shower and into work. It was very chilly and too many cars playing whacky races for my liking, but needs must. 

Tried a new light jacket this morning - an Endura Jetstream III. Temp was allegedley 3 degrees (it felt cold, particularly in the wind - even with winter gloves) and with just a thin cycling shirt (no bib shorts here - so it was a genuine one layer + jacket) the jacket was 'just' warm enough which was ideal - and needed unzipping on the ascent up Chunal (from Hayfield) at the 16 mile point. Hopefully it will be a canny buy as I bagged it in a flash sale through Chain Reaction. (Do they sell anything that isn't in some kind of sale?  ). 

Yaz is in Dubai and I have the kids at home this week so I'm going to try and get out a couple more times doing the same route. Might just get out a bit earlier though as getting home to find the kids are hogging the shower and in need of speeding up to be ontime for school is a bloody nightmare!