by Amy » Wed May 04, 2011 9:07 am
[quote="Antloony"]ps. Well done Amy for turning up and doing your own thing, your deffo getting stronger so keep it up. Next time take Rogan with you though but go easy on him and don't drop him.
Ha. I lasted less than 5 seconds but thanks, Ant and Peachey, for the encouragement. Thought I'd be on me tod so I planned to ride up to the Chipstead High Road via Hooley. Star Lane didn't seem so bad and then it was the gentle downhill to Elmer Pond where I turned left down Castle Road and enjoyed swinging round the bends without worrying about anything coming up (vehicular anyway) to the Chipstead Valley Road then up to Woodmansterne and the long downhill to Carshalton and home.
AND I WAS FREEZING!!! I was wearing two long sleeved layers and longs but when I got home I put all the heating on and sat in front of the halogen heater till I was warm enough to get in the shower.
Someone was wearing shorts and skinny arm warmers... thought I saw some ball bearings on the road
Perhaps the plodders need a 'ride' rather than a chaingang. Say do a loop round Box Hill as it gets lighter in the evenings? I'll post it sometime today. Might encourage others to come out and ride rather than scare them off with words like chaingang and training