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I went on my first bike ride of the year on Saturday. It wasn’t particularly exciting, an hour-long attempt to see where my fitness is at, and to start some kind of recovery back to the cyclist I was before the flu hit me over Christmas. I rode almost 5000km last year, and saw myself as a proper cyclist. Only in December I completed my first Audax, and thought I was about to enter a whole new era of long distance riding.
