ABC Towns and Villages

[All uphill]

Durleigh. I have rung the church bells here, years ago.

Rang them here too, once. Never again, big heavy things on plain bearings.

That's my F. Cranes of Hinkley Point construction site in the background.
35 hilly miles today and just the one coffee and flapjack.

 

[Vantage]

Righto, restarting in 2020,heres my first offering to the ABC God's.

 

[All uphill]

Righto, restarting in 2020,heres my first offering to the ABC God's.

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Good work, Vantage!

By the bags on your bike I'm assuming your not going home until you've completed the alphabet!

 

[All uphill]

G had to be Glastonbury

That's my first metric century of 2020

 

[Spinney]

C to H today!
Cam, Dursley, Eastington, Frocester, Gossington Bridge, Ham

Also my 2nd metric half this year (this is very good for me, by recent standards!)

 

[TheDoctor]

I may be in a position to do Zedfa Zouch in a few weekends time
Rather than start from A again, I'm going to work backwards through Y, X, W and so on towards A.
This may be an ambitious target, since my intended A is in NZ and I'll be there in April...

 

[Aravis]

Continuing the "namesakes" theme started last year, yesterday I rode to Farnborough in Warwickshire. This is in the Avon Dassett/Edgehill area just north of Banbury, popular with professional road races in recent years and completely new ground for me. It would have been nice to have had the sparkling sunshine of recent days, but in my old age I grow increasingly wary of frost and ice.

The miracle of Strava FlyBy means I can tell you the other guy is Pete.

 

[All uphill]

That's H done on a wet and windy day, but also some blue sky at last. Just "I" to go then comes the major challenge of "J". Nearest I know of is 55 miles away across Devon!

 

[All uphill]

Ilchester. An historic town built by the Romans, probably to be convenient for the A303 to London.

 

[Rob and Alison]

We found this thread a bit late last year and decided to hold it over to this year. Our plan last weekend was to get AB&C on last weekends 50km ride, but the camera batteries died after A!

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[Rob and Alison]

As we had planned a 100km ride to take in D-H for this weekend that meant we had to amend one of our midweek evening rides to take in a B, then we could easily add a C to the start of the 100.

 

[Rob and Alison]

Yesterdays C-H 100kms

 

[TheDoctor]

Previously on A-Z...
Having done A-for-Aston through to Y-for-Yardley Gobion, I finally finished on Saturday.
I parked just outside Quorn (handy for the station on the Great Central Railway) and rode through Normanton on Soar towards Zedfa Zouch!

Anyone who thinks that Quorn may possibly feature soon in Z-A is dead right
My next ride will probably involve Yaxley near Peterborough.

 

[Rob and Alison]

A 70mile ride with Stig and semi-loaded paniers (holiday training) last Wednesday to get I-J-K in...

 

[Rob and Alison]

Haven't got around to updating this for a couple of weeks, and 12 weeks 'shielding' means we will be stuck for a while. A 100km ride on March 13th took in L-M and N...