According to gps: odo 21.15 mov time 2h28m max 22.3 moving avg 8.5 tot time 3h45m
Had a few lieu days and since the weather was unseasonably nice for October (well, crisp, dry and chilly) Richard and I decided to go for a ride - starting in the car park of Marple's Rose Hill station (near to where we were last week with a Blush week, actually!) we went up the last few locks of the Marple flight to join the Macclesfield canal. We followed the canal into the outskirts of Macclesfield about 12 miles away; the towpath surface was really quite bumpy in places but it was a nice ride down there. The canal itself was very busy - what with it being half term, I guess, and people being half-way round the Cheshire ring - plus the towpath was used a lot by dog-walkers, cyclists and ramblers too.
In Macclesfield we cycled through an industrial estate (via a McDonald's for a drink and apple pie!) to the Middlewood Way - an old railway track converted to a path that used to link Marple (Rose Hill station) with Macclesfield itself. From there it was just a case of pootling the 10 miles or so back to the car at Rose Hill station.
It was a really nice day - a bit nippy when stopping for too long, and although it wasn't exactly a fast ride (towpaths never are) we kept moving at a reasonable pace and didn't do too badly. Very enjoyable to get out and about and do something worthwhile with our day off, anyway!
That's another canal crossed off the virtual list... running out of canals in the locality to cycle along at the moment!