A Road less Travelled

It's 11.03pm, everyone has left, and my lights don't work. I'm in there somewhere Deep breath, get the button pressing combo right and all of a sudden my exposure six pack transforms into a captured star that is also charging my Garmin. Rather than a sullen baked bean tin that thinks I'm plugging a charger into it. When not operated by an idiot, smart port charging is a brilliant tool for the long distance cyclist Ok. lets go.  370K from Anglesey to Cardiff via four checkpoints, no fees, no support, no prizes. The ingenious brainchild of the team at www.theracingcollective.com to bring back grass roots (or routes), low key, low impact cycling races just for the love of it.  My first long distance, unsupported race. Ever. It's an eclectic route I have planned, through hill and valley, B road, cycle route and gravel path. A chance to see the country of my birth in a way I have never done before.  As efficient planning goes, it turns out to be a stunn