Saturday 19th July 9.30am club ride

DavidJ

Well another Saturday and another Met office severe weather warning in place ! Looks like we have the curse of the Saturday rain fairy on us at the moment !!

So three options again for tomorrow:

1. go west for a bit of a new route to west to Marston Moretaine/Stewartby area (48 miles) that we still haven't managed to do yet this year

Ashwell-Marston Moretaine-Cotton End-Southhill-Ashwell

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/436651646

2. or as its supposedly better the further east you go, do a route over towards Elmdon and then pick up the Geoff Denny route through Furneux Pelham for a bit of variation.

3. Sit inside and watch the rain cascading off the rooftops.........

Will update in the morning

DavidJ

Ok looks like we have a dry(ish) weather window !

Let's decide on a route at the Tuns.....

Pete W

I'm in.

DavidJ

Just 6 of us out this morning for the Sat club ride - think the rain early on might have put a few people off. A quick weather check at the start confirmed that it was looking very dodgy westwards so we headed east. Did a make it up as we go ride so out to fowlmere, Elmdon, littlebury green, Clavering, buntingford and back to Ashwell. Good route and not one we normally do in this direction.

Excellent charge down to slip end taught me two lessons, if it's all about power to weight ratio in a sprint I'm doomed as I have got neither! Also the terminal velocity of an eight speed Giant Defy is exactly 28.5mph !!

Thanks all for an excellent ride this morning, I got 44 @ 16 back at the Tuns. Oh and it was dry for pretty much 90% of the ride

Pete W

Thanks David,
Really enjoyable ride, with some superb new villages I didn't know existed.
Don't to be too harsh about your sprinting exploits, you came past me with a youthful vigour that you should be proud of. I,m sure Emma was!!
Pete