Armed with every conceivable OS Explorer Map for Wales and the brilliant (if sometimes infuriating) Map my ride website (http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/28927960)... over hours and hours i have finally planned my route...over the Brecons, the Cambrians, but avoiding Snowdonia (at least on the way up).
I am now hoping that the bridleways marked on the map are accessible and somewhat rideable.... detours might be inevitable given my map reading skills.. but i aim to stick to my route, not least because unless I want to spend a night in the mountains with no tent or cooking kit.. I have to get to my next planned B and B. This brings me nicely onto my next point..that of mileage calculation. During a recent training ride , the Map my ride website confidently predicted that I would be travelling 55 miles... 70 miles later I staggered through my front door.
There are advantages to this..namely that i can ride 70 miles in one day over rough terrain...however I nearly died! (slight exaggeration, although a broken leg almost became a reality)
But either my cycle computer or the website are slightly out in their calculations and short of getting a piece of string and measuring the route on the map I'm going to have to trust the website...
