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Saturday 7th June 9.30am club ride

DavidJDavidJ
edited June 2014 in Club runs
OK, late posting again due to the met offices warning of biblical flooding/plauge of locusts/rain of blood etc....

So as I see if we have 3 options

1. go west for a bit of a new route to west to Marston Moretaine/Stewartby area (48 miles so a touch longer than normal)

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 Clavering

http://www.mapmyride.com/gb/baldock-eng/ashwell-buntingford-askensden-barkway-as-route-110126959

3. Give up cycling as a bad job tomorrow as its a silly idea in a thunderstorm, and just join the hippies at Strawberry fair in Cambridge http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/ :-)

Comments

  • Pete WPete W
    As long as we start in the dry, I'm game!!!! East or West is fine! Is it 9.00 or 9.30?
  • DavidJDavidJ
    9.30 at the Tuns.

    Let's hope the forecast in wrong......
  • Olly WOlly W
    40 miles in the wet was the easy part - getting out of the hot shower much harder! Thanks all, a memorable ride Olly
  • Pete WPete W
    Well done to those that braved the conditions. Here's hoping that tomorrow is a little friendlier!!
  • DavidJDavidJ
    Think we should have gone for option 3 and joined the hippies !!

    7 of us out this morning all deciding that to go east would be the best option. Was looking good until the clouds caught up with us and then whoosh a small lake fell out of the sky!

    A slight rejig of the route meant that we cycled through the storm and out the other side probably looking like 6 drowned rats by this point ( Alan had pealed off earlier to do a short pre-Dragon ride)

    A split at Therfield and at Odsey meant that I was the lone survivor that made it back to Ashwell. No idea what the final stats were as my bike computer gave up the ghost somewhere near Hare Street :)

    Can we have some sunshine for next week please !!
  • SusanWSusanW
    I think I've just about dried out.... Thanks for a good route David, looking forward to doing it on a dry day!
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