#41 Norfolk -
Pinching a day out of the working week to go for a ride is always a guilty pleasure, Norfolk in unseasonally warm and sunny spells in mid-September trumped a typical factory Friday for sure. Home to Bernard Matthews’ Turkeys and Delia Smith’s Canaries, Norfolk appealed to me as a potentially ‘easy’ 100 miler just 48 hours before round 3 of the West Midlands CX league. Generally speaking I’ve been lucky with my journey to each of the county start locations, a combination of pre-planning and good luck has meant I’m normally off and pedalling within 15 minutes of my planned time. The trip to Norwich was less successful. I got up as planned at 4:45am but from that point plans unravelled. First off as I made my compulsory mug off tea globules of milk floated to the top which meant I had also poured sour milk on my granola. Retrieving a replacement bottle of milk from the fridge in the garage was no better as the BBE date of 3rd August was a good clue that this would be no better than the ha...
