Hilly Ride 30th December.

[Andrew G]

Yes I know the 30th seems like a long way off, but I have just received the following message from John who runs the training sessions some of us have been attending. This is the same ride that Amy put us on to earlier this year and is a great route. I don't know what the pace will be like but as John says 3 hours it won't be slow.

Sadly I can't do it as I have a family do, but should be good fun.

Cheers,
Andrew.

[quote]Christmas Cracker…..A Friends’ Group Ride with Plenty Kick

Come along if you’d fancy a hill-search that aims to blow away
the festive overeating

……and all in less than 3 hours

Hi riders,

This is an invite to see if anyone out there would like to join two of us and make up a larger party to ride the route of the…

CTC Hilly 55km

on Saturday 30 December, leaving the start-point (Ryka’s Café) at 12noon

so leaving Brockham at 11.45am….if you want to park outside/use our house.

If you’ve not done the event for real, it takes place in March and takes in every conceivable hill within a short distance of Dorking, so you have the pleasures of…

Ranmore
Leith Hill the lower half only
Coast Hill
Friday Street by way of a steepest-of-the-day little double-chevron haul
Ewhurst big climb this is the road heading over to Shere
White Down the hardest climb of the day
Box Hill

The real ride in March can be whatever you like.
The big racing guns, full of winter training and short on live races, go off like mad-men up Ranmore, while bringing up the rear are the CTC stalwarts with mudguards and a love of quiet roads.
In between, you have every shade of rider and ability.

To do it for real on the day, there’s some benefit of knowing what’s coming.
Please get in touch if you’d like to join in.

Late arrivals could easily pick us up at Westhumble (Ryka’s Café)…..or later in Dorking (foot of Leith Hill)…… or even later still at Westcott.

The CTC have route details on their website, and it’s a good idea to carry a copy so you can get back whatever happens on the day.
You can contact John at John.Leitch@rbi.co.uk

[Paul on the Pearson]

I reckon I'll give it a go. Only 55k, can it really be that bad? Probably.

[Andrew G]

[quote]Only 55k, can it really be that bad?

[Stu Merckx Man]

i dont have a clue about km, what isit in miles?

[Andrew G]

About 34 miles. (1.6km = 1mile)

[siwickm]

Stu, you could do this with your eyes shut, you should go around twice.

Cheers

Marek...

[Stu Merckx Man]

yeh i think ill give it a go. i might be at relatives, but if i can i will.

[quote] you could do this with your eyes shut

[siwickm]

Last night I felt like I was riding with my eyes shut, I think I sweated out so much that I could hardly see where I was going through my glasses, that along with the fact that I was feeling dizzy as we were going so fast, oh and it was very dark.

Cheers

Marek....

[Stu Merckx Man]

last night was tough, i was hurting this morning!! i felt sick when i got home!

[siwickm]

No pain no gain, at least I hope so else we are killing ourselves for nothing.

Cheers

Marek....

[Paul H]

I didnt think it was that bad - you must be going soft.

[George]

I didn't think it was that bad either

[Stu Merckx Man]

did you go to the elmers end one george?

[Marek]

Paul is playing mind games, and George is just being George.

See you tomorrow morning, George do you fancy doing the Rusper route with a few others tomorrow. We are hoping to do a little handicap race, I may stick myself in the handicapped group.

Cheers

Marek.....