Need company

[Marek]

You guys are a nightmare. Anyway, at least Gavin and I got to CSS on time. We waited until 11.15am so if you had cycled faster you would have come with us.

Gavin and I went over to Abinger via Rusper, Capel, Ockley. Was a real shame that the Cafe was closed but we managed to get some nice cake in the shop next door. Gavin has not ridden for 6 weeks or so and he was struggling a little bit but didn't bother me as I was quite happy with a nice steady pace. Need to work off all the wine and mince pies I have been eating recently.

We split up after our cake stop and Gavin went back via Whitedown. I went over Leigh hill and into Ockley again. I then went over to Ifield, Crawley and then back to East Grinstead. I punctured in Copthorne and that took me a while to fix as my pump or the valve did not seem to be working too well. I then had to cycle the remaining 5 miles back to East Grinstead standing up over the front as my back wheel was still pretty flat.

Reckon I got in about 130km all in all. I then got home and the wife sent me up to town on my mountain bike to get some last minute Xmas shopping. I think my legs are going to fall off. Think I need to ask someone to stick a new pump onto my Xmas list.

I am off to Poland tomorrow so have a happy Xmas everyone, see you in the new year for the Kent reliability rides.

Cheers

Marek.....

[Gavin]

Thanks Marek and Sylv for pulling me round today 90km after 6 weeks off is pretty hard without going over whitedown and box hill. Had a good time even though I was struggling a bit.

Think I will have to cut down on the mince pies whitedown was absolutely horrific 4.4kph at one point and all I could think was it won't beat me I won't stop....

Met Robbie outside gbcycles (didn't go in it's toooo dangerous). We missed him by 5 minutes and when I got home I had a text from sean saying he would be late.

Well hope everyone has a good xmas and see you at new years eve ride or sometime in the new year.

Cheers

G