Great ride out to the coast yesterday, day started a bit grey but by the time Iliya and I got to Slinfold the arms warmers and Gilets were being ditched. We were working well and making very good progress. The first and only real climb was past Bury on the A29 and over to Arundel, its on the main drag A29 which is usually reasonably quite however there was a classic car run/rally of sorts so a few more cars than I expected but it was cool to see E types, hillman imps, frogeye sprites etc out and about in the sunshine, No old bangers thay all appeared to be restored and loved
. Once over the hill it was into Arundel and a quick scoot around the picturesque town and castle to show Iliya as he had not seen it before.
Just out of Arundel and there is another climb onto the A27. This proved to be alot more "rolling" than I rembember
. To be honest I need to revise the route to skop that section as the traffic is fast and it stretches a good 10km before peeling off into Worthing. *note to self check route
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Quick refuel in Worthing overlooking the sea. Iliya was suffering with our shared fast pace early on. Once onto the coastal road through Shoreham and Hove the wheels fell off for Iliya so to speak. He had Bonked in a big way, not a nice place to be at all having done it myself a few time on this route. A short tow into Brighton to ease his suffering and a bite to eat whilst on the train home and he was as right as rain. He even mentioned hopping off at Gatwick and riding back from there ! I didnt fancy that so said we can save that for another day
. So back to East Croydon and we went our seperate ways, Great ride and good company. 120Km. 3 hours 50 minutes. 840 metre ascent. 19.5mph average. 208 watts average, 238 normalized. Really sore legs now
. Plenty of bail out options as we follow the A29 for most of the route so plenty of train stations to get you home if need be 