Take you where you want

I didn't really want to go to Glastonbury today. So it should come as no surprise that's where we ended up. To paraphrase a colleague, it's when the laws of attraction go bad.

Axbridge Cycling Group, four of us in the square, passable weather, which did go according to forecast to be fair, and being sociable, and wanting to avoid all the tourist hotspots, and some of us wanting to avoid the hills, we did at least contrive a route that was different to the usual out and back.

And it was fun, at times like Noah's Ark- two by two, at times like a train (we were certainly moving like one, quite quick by jove we were and no mistake, I'm sure), but above all, a Group. (until Knight of the Realm fell off the back in the home straight).

And lots of other organised events too, a sportive (Wiggle Mendip), a leisure ride based on the Strawberry Line, but with numbers on their bikes that were the side of a house, and also what could have been a triathlon. Why? Because of the huge number of them with those terrible long socks on. It can't make a difference and is just so wrong.

It was great to be out with the ACG again, with a new face (for me at least), I'm tempted to call him Shearer, as he's from Sunderland, but I don't want to upset him, so I'll find out who is idol is. And the prodigal son, the lost sheep, Knight, busy in his shop, so busy that he's having to go to Malaysia again and get more stock, great to see him again.

The world would be a better place if everyone understood the visceral meaning of those Bible stories, lost sheep, prodigal sons, Noah's Ark. One of my favourite quotes:

"After the flood, all the colours came out"

Sometimes you have to just feel things, and today was one of those. You can't know what it is like to have four of you fly along in the sun, outdoors, on the road, with no noise but the swoosh of your tyres. With the wind at your back, the levels spread out in front of you and Glastonbury rising up in the distance. You can't know cycling by thinking about it, like life, it has to be lived.

Here's a live performance that captures it, watch for the second chorus ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZv9KKf0g0

And it was a Beautiful Day, thanks ACG.

Here's Charlie:

http://ridewithgps.com/trips/354146