This was our second year of doing the Evans Plumpton Sportive. There were fewer of us this year with just myself, Paul K and Duncan doing it. The weather was fantastic with 27 degree heat, no wind and wall to wall sunlight.The start of this sportive (at Plumpton college) couldn't be more spectacular with the massive green hillside of Ditchling Beacon staring straight at you. Luckily we had about 5 miles of straight roads before the route took us up the beacon.The beacon is tough but never becomes over steep,to me if feels like you are going round and round a merry go round. After the climb comes the fantastic drop down towards Sussex university. The beacon turned out to be the only major hill of the whole route, with the rest of it, rolling hills (next time we ascend the beacon will be in November when we do the Brighton hack ride). For much of the 60 mile route we got to ride with the same group of riders, it was a shame that none of them were from our local area. This was Paul's third attempt to complete a sportive (first time his wheel broke up, second time we followed the wrong set of arrows) and he really enjoyed it, as did myself and Duncan. We all decided that we will try to increase the number of sportives we do, and will definitely be back for the Plumpton sportive next year.
S.C
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