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Marlow - Monday 25th May
Hi All,
I am thinking of venturing out south and west this Monday to ride around part of the Chilterns, following an excellent route that we rode with Shaun a couple of years ago.
The route starts and finishes in Amersham and is approximately 95 miles with 1900m of climbing with cafe stops in Pangbourne and Marlow.
It's a challenging route but not as tough as the chiltern 100. Good training for Marmotte and Paris/Nice or for just visiting an area we don't normally ride.
The plan would be start riding at 0900. I will post up a link to the route in the next couple of days.
Post back here if your interested.
Martin
I am thinking of venturing out south and west this Monday to ride around part of the Chilterns, following an excellent route that we rode with Shaun a couple of years ago.
The route starts and finishes in Amersham and is approximately 95 miles with 1900m of climbing with cafe stops in Pangbourne and Marlow.
It's a challenging route but not as tough as the chiltern 100. Good training for Marmotte and Paris/Nice or for just visiting an area we don't normally ride.
The plan would be start riding at 0900. I will post up a link to the route in the next couple of days.
Post back here if your interested.
Martin
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Recommended.
It'll be really nice to see a CCA group in the Chilterns again. Fingers are crossed for shorts weather
Includes the following hills:
Coles Hill, Flackwell Heath, Bovingdon Green, Turville-Northend (also great bluebell wood here), Swyncombe Downs, Streatley Hill, Whitchurch Hill, Fawley, Colstrope Lane, Quarry Wood, Hawks Hill, Holtspur Hill (B4440).
You can view and download the route via this link:
http://bikeroutetoaster.com/BRTWebUI/Course/656700
Start / Finish point - Dovecote Meadow Car Park (free parking Bank Holidays), Amersham (HP7 0HL)
Come tackle a few hills and you'll also get to enjoy 2 caf
Here's the route.
Includes the following hills:
Coles Hill, Flackwell Heath, Bovingdon Green, Turville-Northend (also great bluebell wood here), Swyncombe Downs, Streatley Hill, Whitchurch Hill, Fawley, Colstrope Lane, Quarry Wood, Hawks Hill, Holtspur Hill (B4440).
You can view and download the route via this link:
http://bikeroutetoaster.com/BRTWebUI/Course/656700
Start 9am / Finish point - Dovecote Meadow Car Park (free parking Bank Holidays), Amersham (HP7 0HL)
Allow 45mins to 60 mins drive
Note that we used a cafe in Goring last time.
I was actually in Pangbourne yesterday. If you want to push on to Pangbourne for the first stop, there are two cafes in the town now. Little Henry's and a Costa.
I'm doing my own thing this weekend. See you all soon.
Oh and I took my climbing cassette off this weekend - thought I'd get my excuse in early!
Thanks to Shaun for an interesting and testing route. A few dodgy road surfaces (and dirty old men) in places (beware those riding the Chiltern 100).
Thankfully, Tania was there to cover my ears, so I missed the gory details ... and the actual ride proceeded in a much more dignified fashion (assuming I am forgiven for being well off the back on every climb. I'm already tending to forget those bits and instead to remember the descents, which I did enjoy quite a lot). Logged 48.8mph as my max speed, which is my fastest ever. Yes it made my eyes water, but in a good way. A vgd way
We are all doomed.
Good show.