Your ride today....

[blackrat]

See below 😁

http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/guntonpeter.html

https://www.roundtowerchurches.net/suffolk/suffolk-a-i/suffolk-gunton/

https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=6621

Thanks. As an aside, the comment made concerning the locked church:
"..as the Churchwatch charity have pointed out, churches which are kept locked all of the time are far more likely to be vandalised than those which are regularly open, they are twice as likely to be broken into, and are even slightly more likely to have something stolen from them".
is very true.
I often leave my car at a trail head parking lot to ride and have had it broken into on numerous occasions with side windows smashed as the crooks look for anything of value, there never is, I leave nothing worth pinching but criminals being what they are, they assume if the car is locked there must be something.
Since the last such incident about 4 month s ago I now leave the car unlocked with the side windows slightly ajar and have not had it broken into since.

 

[Jenkins]

Looks a great ride. I’m impressed you have 412 historic relatives and Strava knows all about them!

Ta - it was a typical Suffolk & Norfolk ride with continual pedalling thanks to the lack of true downhills giving no chance to rest while freewheeling. Being the oldest child in the family I'm the historic relative, although there's only five of us so where the other 407 are I have no idea

 

[geocycle]

Headed up river today to enjoy a spring day in Lonsdale. Perfect day, Goldilocks temperature and the wind had dropped. The only fly in the ointment was lots of others were out in cars and motorcycles doing the same thing. Actually, the other fly was the one I swallowed, the first of the year. Kirby Lonsdale was very busy with hundreds of bikers so I left the main road as I headed up to Sedbergh, instead following some single track routes through Barbon. I bypassed Sedbergh and entered Dentdale, heading up the gated road skirting the fell to my favourite bench. Unfortunately a family were there revarnishing it so I had a picnic sur l’herbe looking up toward Dent. Rather than drop into the village I headed straight up the Gawthrop climb which was made harder by having to stop for vehicles. Lots of meadow pipits, skylarks and my first wheatear of the year. Even Barbondale seemed busy today. I finished off my lunch on a bench overlooking the Lune valley before the ride home from Kirby. 90 km with 1110 m of climbing.

Pictures are of Lune valley from Halton, the rock bed channel at Kirby Lonsdale and looking toward Dentdale from the lunch stop.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Planned to do a Ronde Von Whitchurch today, but brought it forward a day due to today's awful weather forecast.

The Gods repaid our efforts handsomely, a stunning perfect 72 miles through Cheshire, Shropshire and Wales in spring sunshine with the trees in blossom.

Have to confess, though, that following hard on the heels of 70 solo miles in the Peak with youngest Tuesday on Saturday, today my legs are absolutely casseroled.