First ride this year with fully laden panniers (and new cleats on shoes - which stopped te creaking noise!). Lovely sunny day. So good not to be cold!
Went reasonably well until about Epping Forest (the bit after Epping town), where the really crappy road surface cancelled out the long downhill.
The across London from the east - lots of traffic jams and red lights. Mind you - legs by this time dog tired so I probably wouldn`t have managed to go much faster even on an open road . . . .
And as I tottered up to Berkeley Square, the car in front stopped suddenly. I did too - couldn't get my cleat out of the pedal and fell over on my side - the large Rolls Royce behind stopping graciously as I picked myself up ruefully and continued on my way . . .