Club Run: Sat Nov 26th

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Club Run: Sat Nov 26th

Postby Toks » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:44 pm

Ok there were woolly hats, gloves, overshoes, oversocks, gillets, knee warmers, leg warmers, full length bib shorts, I even spotted a baseball jacket and of the course the ubiquitous Hoody. All this and not even a snow flake insight. Yes! with the temperature fluctuating between 4-6 degrees above freezing some club runs struggle to get a handful of members, while in stark 'cold' contrast the 'addiscombe massive' were at full strength...

After the obligatory Hi's and Hello's Mark led out the first of the two big yellow ACC trains. However, it soon became apparent that train No 2, led by Monty, wouldn't be leaving for a while because in true agreeable spirit we were waiting for someone to fix a puncture...'Well, ?too many cooks and all that?? myself, Yohan, Tim, Simon and a few other impatient souls quickly launched into the first of many 'threshold efforts' and bridged the three minute gap across to the first group. With the group now swollen to almost 30 it was inevitable, once we'd reached the lanes beyond Reigate some people would start getting twitchy feet. Ignoring the mysterious booing :) myself and Marek, doing his reverse club run, went to the front and were then quickly joined by Kevin and Sylvain. Indeed, this deadly duo remained at the head our group for a couple of miles, but slowly and surely the amount of asphalt between them and us began to increase. Eventually the magnetism of the group could hold them no longer and they both went off on their merry way. So bar a couple of leg stretching efforts form Tim and Marek group order was restored

Later with half the group turning off - café bound - the rest of us headed to the dual carriage way from the longest approach. Once on the DC I managed to draw Tim, Simon, Marek, Robert on a fixie and a chap in Green away from the others. The pace nudged up slowly and hovered at around 22-23mph as we began a very smooth through and off. By now the rest were far behind or so we thought!. Steve made a massive effort and road across the gap to join us - somewhat assisted by traffic lights :wink: .

Of course group dynamics are tentative at the best of times and being permanently stuck in 53/14 Marek?s constant surges finally put the ?thro n off? experiment to bed. As we left the DC our seven man group was strung out with the guy in green bravely doing a massive turn on the front. With just under three miles to go numerous pace setting jumps and fake attacks from Marek, Steve and myself ensured the paced remained high as we set about finding out who had their the best fast-twitch fibres on a Saturday morning. By the time the final bend arrived Marek was on the front and the pace was an impressive 27mph into a head wind. On Marek's wheel was yours truly, on my wheel was Steve and stuck like the proverbial flies on XXXX to Steve's back wheel was Tim. It was clear no one else one else was gonna feature in this one. With 40 metres to go I jumped off Marek?s wheel, Steve jumped off my wheel and Tim jumped us all. A simple case case of 3-2-1, and for the Addiscombe's coolest rider, job done!.

During the obligatary coffee and cakes at the café there was a nice round of applause for a Verona bound Simon before we all we headed back to CCS via Norwood hill. Perhaps not the ideal route back home judging from the efforts of a couple of ACC's, 2006 Etapers. :wink: At the final head count just before the A23 my body decided it had had enough so I rolled back at a steady pace but still managed to give a Robbie a push up the long drag and was grateful to receive a much needed push from Dave L . Dave and I continued turn taking through Croydon and up to Crystal Palace, where we stopped for more coffee of course!. Have a good week Guys
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Postby Ian A4size » Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:37 pm

Cold My @rse- last week was cold mate, we got 6 hours in over the 2 days, yep thats a 3 hour ride- hungover from the club dinna! Not out yesterday as i had to wash me hair but got a 3 hr ride in today. guess you lot of softy indoor workers thought it was freezin'.(no frost-not freezing :D )
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Postby sylv » Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:14 pm

Hey great piece of writing Toks (not saying that because I'm in it ;-))

Hope it wasn't rude doing our own little ride to Charlwood - legs were just itching!
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Postby siwickm » Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:02 pm

It was your loss Sylv, you missed out on a fun dual carriageway and sprint finish.

I thought it was fun even though I was the lead out man, good to watch the fast guys toughing it out. I thought Toks was going to get it but Tim did a good job going around the outside.

After I turned off on the way back I somehow ended up back in Charlwood, I needed to get to Crawley so was not too bad, just so you know I reckon Eddie sent you all on a bum steer up Norwood Hill because the road was actually open and I saw him cycling the other way, the way that he told everyone else not to go. :lol:

Hey Ian, bet you were not wearing shorts only like Rob (not Fallon), blimey Rob, you must have been freezing your butt off.

Cheers

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Postby Keith W » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:51 pm

:lol: IT WAS I -- Keith -- - Did my self hold on till Rd opened up sat --

Told by Police would take sevral Hrs. to clear.

You did the corect way as only main rd and lots of trafic to Crawley or did you turn back on your self Best to take a map with you always

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Postby Marek » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:55 pm

Sorry Keith, I am rubbish with names. I was not lost I just decided to do a few more miles with the group before coming back to Charlwood and then over to Crawley.

Cheers

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Postby Mike I » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:33 pm

On the subject of names, it was me on the fixie.

Now I see mention of 53/14, I don't feel so bad about getting dropped at Ifield on 48/18. (Note to self - gear up before trying that again.)

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Postby Toks » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:47 pm

[quote]On the subject of names, it was me on the fixie.

Apologies Mike, I really must try and remember peoples' names. Oh by the way, I was very impressed with your smooth 'not bouncing in the saddle' spinning last saturday! :) :)
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