CYCLING WEATHER

The best cycling weather is probably hot and dry; you do exercise and get a tan at the same time (well, on bits of your body; you can end up looking like a Neapolitan ice cream, coloured at the extremes and white in the middle).

Or, as it was today, cold and misty. That's because in both cases, there is unlikely to be a lot of wind, which is what really matters.

Today I did 45km in the mist. It was terrific.

Walter Blotscher