45 miles around Rivington

Yesterday was a lovely mild, dry and sunny day. Too good to waste by not riding my bike. I headed out for the hills about 11am intending to give my legs a good workout.
For the first 25 miles i could work hard keeping my heart rate in the top end of zone 3 or 80% or 160bpm and my average speed was just over 18mph. Thats when i hit the hills of Belmont and although i was working just as hard my average speed by the end of the ride had dropped to 15.8mph. I had a good ride even passing a couple of other riders on the way home and paused to take some pictures too.

Ride stats 45.19 miles, 2h 51 mins, 15.84 average, max 39.1mph, Heart rate max/average 181/149bpm