3/11 Club Ride to Horam

Dont Look So Worried Malcolm, Its Only A Club Ride!

Tom 'Audax' Norris Joins Us For A Club Ride For The First Time

Today's club ride led by Chris P took us out to one of our top cafe stops, the 'lakeside' at Horam. Chris has a number of different routes to get to there but I must say that of all the ones I have been on, this was the best and longest. The route had a lot of up and down on quiet roads which were in surprisingly good conditions. The section through Bodle Street Green, Rushlake Green and Cowbeech were particularly enjoyable. With us on his first ever club ride was Tom 'audax' Norris from the Weds chaingang/timetrials .Normally Tom is well ahead of me but today he was slightly off the pace, not helped by riding an old comfortable but heavy steel Peugeot  road bike from the nineties. Another newbie with us was Malcolm C, this was only his second club ride. Malcolm had already done a fast 'bacon butty' ride the day before so to come out for another 60 miles was pretty heroic! All day we were buffeted by some strong gusts but once we left the (as always excellent ) cafe we had the wind at our backs almost all the way back. Just like at last weeks reliability trial ,I felt  unusually good on the bike and once we got to familiar roads decided to push a little harder and left Chris and Malcolm C behind with just Malc D staying with me. Thanks to Chris for yet again mapping out in his computer like brain an excellent route. I have saved this as a gpx file so we can repeat it again on a day when Chris is not available.