Sunday ride 4th Dec.

[Ian A4size]

A nice crew of agreeables out today 6 in all for a trawl around surrey/kent lanes, we did about 55-60 miles plus a cafe stop in newdigate for great coffee and luvvly bread pudding. If you go there try the choccy fudge brownies they take some winding back even for me! The sun shone virtually all day- we saw Sylv out as well.
BTW Sylv we ride most Sundays so you are welcome to join us- we may be a bit slow at the moment for you coz i know you are training for a winter event.
Good to see Lisa going well again , she was the only lady out today, i guess she has got about 7-8 hours of riding in this weekend , i bet that makes for some nice quiet afternoons chris

[Alan M]

I also saw Sylv who was going at a fair pace but in the opposite direction! I was out with the Surrey league (John Leitch race-training crew, about 10 of us) doing impossible things around the Surrey racing circuit. But we were all in the traning squad kit so possibily it looked quite cool which is all that matters. Today was sprint intervals of 15 and 30 seconds between cones and then though and off up a long drag with 'so called' attacks on steep bits. I cycled back via Merstham and had to stop at the garage to take on food to get me back to Croydon. The weather was good but we seemed to find the odd pockets of cold air.

I will rest on Monday!!

Alan

[Jon H]

I had a Sunday ride into deepest Essex to collect a prize at the SPOCO SE lunch & prize presentation.

Crossed the Thames via the Woolwich foot tunnel, which is a bit spooky, trying hard not to think about the age of the tunnel and thousands of tons of water just a few metres above my head. Then I proceeded to get fairly lost in East London. But by navigating by the sun and following a trail of white stilletos and Burberry caps I headed in a roughly north-easterly direction and reached the countryside somewhere near where I had intended east of Upminster, then rode through the lanes to a village pub for the presentation. Collected my prize and had a slap-up roast dinner and a couple of pints with three blokes from Chelmer CC. I slept off the lunch on the train back into London from Chelmsford, getting home just as it was getting dark. All in all a good day out.