Despite having the heard rain falling through the night and knowing it would be a muddy one, I got myself down to CSS, saw the road groups get away, and was joined by Aodan on his cross bike. Aodan devised a nice route on the hoof to bring us back into East Croydon just over 2 hours later (I didn't recognise all of it, but we definitely headed out via Farthing Downs, and came into Croydon via Woldingham and New Addington). Some real muddy slogs along the way, but also some very pleasant descents where the water had drained away better, and actually hardly any rain fell while we were out. All in all, a good start to the weekend, and I'll look forward to next time.
EDIT - just saw Aodan wrote this up on the club run thread including a better recollection of the route
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