We met at the Harrow at 7 on the dot. First to arrive was Paul b, JV closely followed by Hight, new rider James and finally David Morris who had given up waiting for Dan to get out of bed.
We made our way as we normally do up the ridge, down Chick hill and along the front at Winchelsea where the temperature dropped and began attacking our extremities.
We weren't cold for too long as we pushed hard up the climb of Dumb woman's lane and then along Udimore road, through Rye and the drag of the Military canal.
The weather at this point was glorious, crisp biting cold but a unbroken blue sky that was made even better by the sight of two hot balloons drifting across the vista.
As we made the route across towards Brenzett we stopped briefly to greet the balloonists as they came in to land, and not crashing as I first thought.
Our route took us up towards Ham Street, up the climb at Woodchurch and finally to our usual stop at Tenterden.
After taking on some fuel including David's excellent fig, chocolate and orange bar we set off on the return route via Benenden, Iden and Sandhurst.
It was a really nice route back taking in a fair few drags and lumps which was made all the worse by me capturing all the suffering on film with my new toy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVHr5jcB_A
We finally made our way past Bodium, up to Staplecross and the usual sprint down to Seldlescombe before going our seperate ways home.
A beautiful day and a great route, well done to Mother Nature and John Vidler respectively.
TTFN
Lee s
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