Your ride today.... (part 1)

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Just back from a much shorter ride of 25 miles still no sun and still a drizzle but much warmer than yesterday!

 

[London Female]

I went out with my local CTC group this weekend for one of their shorter rides, 26 miles from Grove through Denchworth, Goosey, Stanford, Hinton Waldrist through to Fyfield to Millets Farm for tea and back via Fyfield Wick and West Hanney. Lovely day through some pretty places and the sun did eventually appear.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

56 miles this morning including a club ride. I haven’t been on many club rides, only three, but I fancied it today so it was off to the clubhouse to see what the route du jour was


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The weather was pretty humid and I was over dressed in longs, everyone else on the ride was in shorts I think…but Ive got some pondage to shift so a bit of a sweat didn’t hurt

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It was a nice sociable group and exactly what I needed after some bad news this morning..to get out..get with people and ride through some lovely lanes down and around fontwell. The route took in the sea front and harbour at Littlehampton and climping etc, all familier territory

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The cake stop was at a garden centre somewhere, cant remember its name, but a kind lady offered to share her bike lock with me as I didn’t have one and I indulged in tea and a piping hot pastie!

It was good to chat to other riders, not just about bikes but all kinds of things.

I still have trouble getting into a group rider mindset after so long riding alone, but it was nice to ride in a wind shadow for a change!

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[London Female]

56 miles this morning including a club ride. I haven’t been on many club rides, only three, but I fancied it today so it was off to the clubhouse to see what the route du jour was


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The weather was pretty humid and I was over dressed in longs, everyone else on the ride was in shorts I think…but Ive got some pondage to shift so a bit of a sweat didn’t hurt

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It was a nice sociable group and exactly what I needed after some bad news this morning..to get out..get with people and ride through some lovely lanes down and around fontwell. The route took in the sea front and harbour at Littlehampton and climping etc, all familier territory

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The cake stop was at a garden centre somewhere, cant remember its name, but a kind lady offered to share her bike lock with me as I didn’t have one and I indulged in tea and a piping hot pastie!

It was good to chat to other riders, not just about bikes but all kinds of things.

I still have trouble getting into a group rider mindset after so long riding alone, but it was nice to ride in a wind shadow for a change!

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So, a good ride, different experience and a nice morning out riding in Sussex

You takes some lovely photos, what camera do you use as I am looking for a new one since mine, after many years, is now broken. Incidentally, I prefer riding with others, I am hopeless at finding my way around and would end up lost on my own and I like the company.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

73 lumpy miles this morning, Wasely Hills Country Park and back, warm grey morning, I've been commuting in a winter jacket and getting cold hands all week so was surprised to find it warm enough for shorts this morning, the sun came out as I got to the outskirts of Coventry on the way back, did more climbing on this ride than I usually do, made it a hard but enjoyable morning, as a bonus the Windmill Cafe does an excellent Beans On Toast and Coffee, £3.90 for a mug of Coffee plus a Beans on Toast with two slices of bread of the door step variety with plenty of Beans, fuelled the legs well for the ride home.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Today's jaunt was a mix of three of my regular routes that, with a bit of jiggery pokery, makes a great metric 100 (102 km to be exact) taking in the lovely countryside to the north of the lake district and the Solway coastal plain. I was planning on doing this yesterday as there was little or no wind but I came down with a bout of farting around, so it got postponed till this morning...wind was a steady 12-15mph westerly .

Final tally (with a couple of route changes) is 100.6km with 2600ft ascent at an average 15.5mph.... I love mixing imperial and metric unit

 

[fabregas485]

Did a skyride today titled 'Metroland'. The distance was about 25 miles, and included some very nasty hills.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Did a skyride today titled 'Metroland'. The distance was about 25 miles, and included some very nasty hills.

i looked on the skyride site for local rides but there is only one ride and thats a mountain bike off road jobby. So i set up a group, which so far has just one member...guess who lol!

 

[cyberknight]

61 mile club run,
got dropped about 2/3 rds of the way round at a junction stopping for traffic and could not get on the back, i was clocking 26 mph on the flat and i was still being left behind sheesh !
http://www.strava.com/activities/84108255

 

[derrick]

42 mile social ride with the club, what a friendly bunch they are, had a cafe stop and had a nice fried breakfast, then a nice easy ride home. A perfect day.

 

[biggs682]

3 laps of Emberton park wow

 

[Peteaud]

22 Mile pootle with Mrs Aud today.

We set of from the Cafe at Maunsel Lock on the Taunton Canal and headed north keeping mostly to the (good) towpaths.

Mrs Aud taking a pic of me with her new camera :-

We then left the canal and followed the river back south along the quite lanes on the levels :-

Crossing the main road at Burrow Bridge Mump

Then through North Curry

Then back at the start we had a coffee and a cake.

A happy Mrs Aud:-

 

[theloafer]

great ride with my g/f today 32 mile very steady in the http://connect.garmin.com/activity/379552430 first part is a local walking route then we headed out to sedgefield for cake+coffee then headed out of sedgefield to the A689 picked up the cycle path (think ncn1) to the millennium bridge where we picked up the Wynyard cycle track and headed to the old station café for more cake+coffee and resting in the then we slowly ambled back via Carlton-Redmarshall-Bishopton-Great Stainton

 

[Alex H]

A very sunny afternoon to do 63km up the Vienne (more like up and down the valley sides) to Aixe-sur-Vienne returning via Séreilhac (home of the donkey fete - 1st Sunday in October - put it in your diaries now!) and Cognac-la-Forêt (home to the hemp festival )

Bicycle planters

The bridge at Aixe-sur-Vienne

Duckies

Séreilhac - Salle Polyvalente (community hall) and site of donkey fete

 

[HLaB]

Got asked by a mate if I could plan a ride, so I did so. I was hoping I would recover fully from a bout of food poisoning, unfortunately I was wrong but with the help of great mates I got round and enjoyed the