First February ride

This week has been quite busy, I had to fly out to cold Sweden (actually it was just similar weather as in the UK), but still had time to do a couple of turbo trainer sessions and one spinning workout at the gym. All in all nearly three hours of sweating!
Today we had our first February ride, 100 km from Mirfield to Glossop and back over Holmes Moss. Again rode with the Ravensthorpe cycle club. Never did the southside of Holmes Moss, quite different from the north side, less difficult I would say, but still quite hard. The climb is to just over 500 meters - my Garmin's altitude meter was almost spot on with the sign at the top of the climb. Did quite well, better then the climb on the way up - my engine seems to work a bit like a diesel, it takes a couple of miles before it starts working well! The weather was typical for this time of the year in the Pennines, we had snow and a freezing cold wind! Saw the sun for five seconds (don't remember where that was) and that was it. Cold - it took me ages after our midrun stop to warm up again, but then the climb to Holmes Moss did it.
With these miles in my legs I should be able to finish my rides this summer decently, just have to make sure I'm not burning it all before the summer starts.
Off to the US this week, hope I can use the gym and look forward to the trip next week.
If you want to see our ride of today, just follow this link: http://www.mapmytri.com/view_route?r=789845715294

Quite curious if this works - let me know. I've downloaded the route data from my Garmin into Mapmyride.com

That's all - next posting next week!