Woke up this morning with everything all packed and ready for my first commute home from work , to find it was SNOWING!! This is quite rare for this time of year in England. I got to work with all my kit (I'm taking the train on the way there) and all my collegues were pulling my leg, saying there's no way I'll be riding back, but come 5 pm there I was giving them all a scare in my full winter cycling gear.

Luckily the snow came to nothing and turned into rain, but the ride home was dry. It was excellent! So the ride isn't too long I have to go up a particually big hill that comes right near the end of my ride, which I haven't tried for ages and I conquored it! It was such fun - at one point I'd almost forgotten I'd been to work!

Looking forward to Tuesday - my next ride home. Turned out it was getting on for 28 miles, but as it's one way and I can just collapse when I get in it should make for some good hard rides.