by Jon C C on a Bianchi » Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:57 pm
[quote="Tim Coales"]Good to see so many riders out on such a lovely November morning. Hope you all enjoyed your rides:
Early (8.45am) Brockham bonfire ride with Andrew, Training Group with Keith, 19's with Del, 18's with John & Nick, Alternative with Pete, 17's with Grahame, 16's/15's with Amy, Just For Fun with me.
Good fun as always and as you say a glorious day - I particularly enjoyed the VC huddle - almost magical - we started huddling and then we appeared to be multiplying - VCs suddenly everywhere - spooky!
I rode with the 18s - mostly the usual motley crew - Sam, Jeff, Noel, Galum, Iliya, Tom, and Robbie. We kept it steady and kept it together until the climb up to Rusper where Galum and Iliya put the hammer down and had most of us busting our lungs to keep with them. A photo finish couldn't separate Jeff and Sam at the sprint. Got to the cafe averaging 18.5 mph.
Rode home with Brian, Noel, Lindsay, Mark L et al - with Sam, Brian and me doing most of the work - got to the right turn onto the golf course road to see that we'd been towing a veritable peloton of the fast boys
who, nicely rested, then proceeded to rip it up on the climb!! Sam disappeared with the boy racers up the climb and left Brian and me to fight out our usual 'best of the rest, old boy, duel of the also rans' KoM prize.
Averaged nearly 19 mph door to door.
FYI - I hope to be there every Sat this Month - I love it (and otherwise have a sad and empty life!!):lol: