Reliability routes

[huw williams]

The following two reliability rides are as follows:
13th of Feb is the longer one at 115 km and the one which goes out through Penshurst, up Fordcombe (awfull) round the south of T.Wells and back through some horrible hills around Lynton. It's usually the one last on the list and therefore the one which is treated most like a race.

The 20th, though shorter is the hardest as it again goes down to Penshurst then up Fordcome (awfull) Ashdown Forest (worse) Toys Hill (murder) and Star Hill (you're dead by then so it doesn't matter).

Tamar is being modest - there were far more riders behind her than in front on Sunday and it was a real hard pace. I did a 3hrs 21min ride and just got dropped from the leading group of about nine on the final Pole Hill. That group contained a couple of first cats and an ex junior national champion so the pace was, shall we say a little brisk!!!