Woke up early Sunday morning to join the road ride to the climbs but chickened out and decided to join Marco on his off-road ride as this gave me an extra hour in bed. Arrived at East Croydon BR at 9:50am as I didn't realise the start time had changed slightly. Anyway I had a great time, my first proper off road ride even if I did have my commuting slicks on still. I managed not to fall off at all and we made it in time to the Bec Hill climb in time, although covered in mud and soaked through. I spinned my low MTB gears up the hill climb, didn't seem so bad!
and found the feed tent at the top and filled up (as no cafe break on the MTB ride
) The event was great but the cold got the better of us (the MTB ride group) and we head ed home after the last ACC up the hill. Had a scarey ride home as the mud and rain meant my breaks had gone from bad to almost non existant, had to use my foot on the road to slow down a few times!
Well done to all the guys who did the climb in such conditions, maybe next year for me, but I think definitely more MTB rides as I really enjoyed it (thanks Marco) but I'll take off the slicks next time and fit new break blocks.