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Ian and his family always have their summer holidays in different parts of the country. Ian always brings his road bike and looks up the local cycle club to ride with, so he was linking up with us this morning. Ian told us we all had big legs climbing all the hills in our area, whereas in Oxfordshire the terrain is quite flat. He needn't have worried about keeping up though, as he proved himself a better climber than most of us, and a demon decender.Steve D was also with us which surprised me as he had to get back to Hastings for 10;30 to drive a train. Knowing our average speed is about 15mph, I didn't think this was possible. This was a new ride taking as far North as the Sandhurst area. Things got off to a bad start because I had plotted the first part of the ride down the horrible A21 and we missed the first turn . Soon we were off the main road and making steady progress but Steve needed to go faster so soon dropped us, I didn't think we would see him again. On reaching the Sandhurst area we were surprised to see the familiar figure of Steve again. He was having trouble with his GPS and couldn't find the route , unlike my old 205 which was fine.Once we got nearer to home Steve had to leave us again while the rest of us enjoyed the fast decent down Netherfield hill before a pleasant tea stop at battle where Ian very generously paid for us all to have tea and toasted tea cakes.
This is definitely not one of our best routes but on arriving home I have made a lot of modifications to reduce the time on busy roads so I think we should give it another go next year.
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