I’ll tell you why Tea is brilliant, it gives you a moment to reflect!
After a long, hard but ride, in the pouring rain, being bounced and slid around, with sloshes of cold muddy water being thrown into your face, the cold rain running off the back of your neck, drips being driven off your nose horizontally by the sharp wind, when which ever way you turn you’re somehow cycling into the wind, your tyres so caked in clag you have to pedal downhill as well as up,
then, you get home,
abandon your wet, steaming clothes and soggy mass of entirely “necessary” bike paraphernalia, and sit in a fugg of evaporating fog, with a nice warm cup of tea clasped tightly in your frozen hands,
at exactly that point you realise you have just enjoyed the last few hrs immensely, the harsh conditions sudden become “character building” the pain and uncertain landing of a slippery tumble on a wet rock becomes an “anecdote”. Friendships are made or solidified, friends united, differences suddenly seem less different.
Riding a bike and Tea, two simple past times that are good for the body and soul 😉
