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| Refreshment At The Lakeside Cafe |
Fantastic weather for the six of us out on the Sunday club run, so different to the weather we suffered during the week, best of all no wind which makes for much easier riding and communication. Chris led us out on one of the old classic club runs over towards Horam where he wanted us to check out a new cafe he had heard about called 'The Lakeside Cafe'. He had his trusty old 1970s cycle satchel with him as he was planning on leaving us at Horam to go off to Heathfield for a cycle association lunch. We rode directly over to battle before the long climb up Netherfield hill and the well known route past Darwell reservoir and through Brightling. This is one of my favourite places to ride as the roads are nice and wide and there are long steady safe descents where you can really pick up speed. It wasn't long before we got to Horam. We were all very pleased with the new cafe . Lots of choice and a nice view over the reservoir. All were very impressed with the quality of the coffee, bacon sarnies and eccles cakes and will definitely make this one of our favourite watering holes. Chris left us at this point so we passed the navigation over to Malcolm who has a built in GPS chip in his brain. An enjoyable fast ride down gun hill into lower Dicker followed, but after that (for once) Malcolm wasn't sure how to get onto the sustrans route leading to Pevensey. Luckily Jon knew the way and we all followed him. Once Paul B was on the front the pace picked up a little and myself and Jon gradually got dropped from the others until they slowed down for us in Bexhill. This last big push helped push up our average speed to 16.4 mph which is a good pace for a club run.Thanks to Chris for leading out such a great route, myself and Steve B have both saved it to our GPS units and called it the' Horam Satchel Ride'.
Distance 46 miles
Ascent 768m
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