Saturday 3rd December 9.30am club ride

DavidJ

Should just about be frost free tomorrow morning, so how about

Ashwell-Buntingford-Wyddial-Hare Street-Westmill-Dane End-Bennington-Walkren-Cromer-Ashwell (41 miles with Wyddial loop or 34 without it)

After last week's luxury, not sure if there is a comfy bus stop on the route but I'll see what I can do

DavidJ

Ten of us out this morning for the spin out to Bennington & back. Good too see that we filled our EU quota of Dave's, but were a bit lacking in Simon's!

Weather was pretty good for December, but the roads were shocking. Think it must be tractor migration season as there was mud everywhere. Nasty village lived up to it's name, with a particularly muddy and slippery bit on a downhill bend. All got through safely though.

After an excellent mid ride stop and Dave and Jenny's (thanks guys, great Swedish Swiss roll thingies ) it was onwards upwards for the push back to Ashwell. Pacey leadout too by JP down the slip end road, cyclocross racing is clearly doing some good, although not 100% sure we needed to start from the bottom of the Sandon turning!!

So a whisker under 40 miles@16. Thanks all for a great morning.

Oh and even though we had 4 Dave's on the ride, we were beaten by numbers of bikes with disc brakes........times they are a changing !!

timA

Great ride today, really enjoyed it, and ended up with almost exactly 50 miles.

Thanks to Dave and Jenny for the coffee stop, and hats off for basically doing the same ride twice!

JeremyP

Enjoyed that today - my 1st ever Saturday 9.30am ride. Not difficult to see why this club run is so successful. Thanks to DavidJ for organising us and leading the route. Like to echo what's been said about Dave and Jenny's hospitality at halfway.

Apologies for initiating an early change of pace down Slip End. In the end I should have kept my powder dry as Dave and I were well and truly worked over in the final sprint. Just a bit of fun at the end of a good morning out on the bikes.