Strava – Berwick Hill to Ponteland (loop)

I hope to make this the year of my first 100+ miler. Starting small today. Mild, very little breeze, traffic courteous (apart from one guy with a load of bikes in the back of his people carrier, ironically! Maybe they were his scalps).

Also, I have yet to work out the etiquette of when it’s OK to draft a stranger. I passed another rider going past the airport on the home leg only to be freaked out going past the rugby ground hundreds of yards later to realise he was hugging my back wheel which he continued to do all through Kingston Park. I know it’s a legitimate technique but I feel it’s a bit rude and intimidating to do it to someone you don’t know and not even acknowledge the help they’ve just had. I was just out for a Saturday ride, not part of a bloody peloton!