A ride along the Canals

We had nothing planned for today except moving down further so at 9:30am I headed out on my bike for what I thought was going to be a short leisurely ride.
I headed down the cycle path at the side of the canal and had a good pace of 30kph. Around 8km in I overtook a French guy on a mountain bike and after 10 minutes I realised he was drafting me so I sped up to 33kph to try and shake him.
The thing is when your drafting your not using any effort and he was just sitting in my slipstream while I did all the work. I kept this pace up for 5km and then I just as I was pretty much cooked I slowed down and he overtook me and gave me the universal sign for get on my wheel and I started drafting him.
He had already slowed down only pulling at around 30kph and he pulled for around 1500 meters before he gave up and said he was cooked. We said Ciao to each other and I thanked him for his little effort and took off until I had 20 km under my belt and then I turned around and headed back to Wanda knocking out 40kph in 90 minutes.
Back at Wanda Ellie made me Jaffels in the the Jaffel iron using last nights left over dinner of peppered sauce pork sausages and French Camembert. The cheese tastes great but it’s stinking the fridge out.
At 12pm we left Grisolles and headed down.Read more