Welcome to Metin who was joining us for his first ever ride. Metin was one of the riders we spoke to last Saturday at the top of Battery Hill. Also present was myself, Duncan, Dave C and Paul K. Chris P was there to say hello to Metin and to see us off, he told us that we would be lucky to get back before the rains started. We said goodbye to chris and set off on the ride, this was a new 30 miler 'Bodle'. Metin was a little worried about keeping up but he need not have been as he has the perfect cycling build and kept up during the first 20 miles with no problem at all, infact on some of the uphill sections it was he that was setting the pace. As we carefully negotiated Horse walk we came across two riders on the corner, they were both laughing and one of them (Guy) had a nice smear of mud on his jersey. It turned out they had never done horse walk before and Guy had over shot the corner and ended up on the bank of the river, another couple of feet and he would have been in the river!!. We had a nice chat with them and I gave them our contact details so hopefully we will see them again? We carried on and proceeded to the high point at Brightling. From Brighling down to Sidley was mostly glorious downhill, Metin started to run out of steam at this point but did great to complete the route. Hopefully we will see him out with us again? We just managed to avoid the rain but got soaked on the way home from the 'dugout' cafe.
34 miles av-14.9 mph
S.C
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