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Sunday 6 April - 9.30
Will plan a route in the morning after seeing what the weather brings.
40 - 50 miles @ 16 plus, usual rotations of 10 minute turns on the front,
Mix of both flat & hills as last week,
Currently thinking of a route out to Braughing, Pelhams and back with the breeze.
9.30 at the Tuns.
40 - 50 miles @ 16 plus, usual rotations of 10 minute turns on the front,
Mix of both flat & hills as last week,
Currently thinking of a route out to Braughing, Pelhams and back with the breeze.
9.30 at the Tuns.
Comments
Where's the Cap'n?
John
Surely the local place of worship is the same as the local hostelry? Perhaps several GnTs with lemon will cure the scurvy!
Will join you with classic but worn out 80s racer if I can - am currently removing it from mothballs from where it will need a quick polish and bottle cage fitting.
Rupert
Helped for the moment, but a miracle did not occur
Green machine also in trouble ,being rebuilt
The vuelta is lost, no nonsense the right approach
Will return from the ashes next week
Commodore to deck hand in 2 weeks, the sea is a cruel place
Have booked a place on the tandem
Just practicing putting a nose in front , takes some real balance though
Can Man and machine be rebuilt ?
Time will tell
CP
Hitchin, Codicote, Panshanger, Essendon, Potters Bar, Little Berkhamsted (there be monsters around there!) Hertford, Bramfied, Watton, Weston.
55 miles @ 15.3mph. Pooped.
FD
And to think - I almost took the easy option of a local ride on my own.
I made it around 45 miles at 15mph & 3hrs.
Legs are insisting I take a day off on Monday, but that rounds off a decent 1st week back club riding proper-like; and I'm stuffed!
178 miles, 11:30hrs, 6K of climbing. It will be a well earned beer that I gift myself this evening.
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.
The novel.........gives a matter-of-fact but moving portrayal of ordinary men learning to fight and survive in a violent, exhausting battle against the elements and a ruthless enemy.
Hope the recovery of man and machine is swift, Cap'n.
FD
Ergo, I be a landlubber. 'Tis a far better place, the land, at least you don't need y'er Speedos.
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Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties reading books at university, going out, listening to early-90s house on his iPod and watching war films. He also, as an officer in the Grenadier guards, fought in some of the most violent combat the British army has seen in decades.
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Obviously missing the intellectual humour and banter of the Captain
( spelt correctly despite US spell check )
I will return, take the helm and blow up the mizzen once more
fear not , you will have a jolly roger again soon
CP
PS for those getting the supportive whispering from a fan of ours see this
The Whisperer in Darkness
Short Story by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Whisperer in Darkness" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written FebruarySeptember 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to "The Colour Out of Space", it is a blend of horror and science fiction. Wikipedia