I enjoyed this ride very much but there were some buts....before I actually started riding on the bike , just outside Longford Station I nearly crucified myself with the pedal hitting me on my shin. It really left a bump - a competitor for Jennifers red bite on her leg . Then after a few miles I cycled over this plastic tin in which there was this white stuff . I presume it was some dressing which one receives with chips or similar. The white paste went all over my right leg , the bike and everywhere else . I also intended to go through Ballymahon but I seemingly did not , which I could not understand . I had decided to have something to eat there but it did not appear . However I was going on the LHS of the lake , and not the RHS - I thought I was . Another thing was that I was about 10-15KM from Athlone , but a sign said then Athlone was over 60KM! I became worried . The roads are all Letterd and prefixed by a letter . For example Road number R60 . But on the sign I saw , the letter was not there . But further on I could see the Letter in front of the name , so I was OK. When I got off the main road , a car did not pass me for at least an hour - the arse end of nowhere. And when I got to Athlone I had something to eat and before I finished eating it started to rain so , I was origionally going to go on a bit more cycling , but I just went home on the train after a very interesting cycle , and behind it all very enjoyable.