Early Bird- Boxing Day Ride

These Used To Be Fields!

A brief dry weather window for our boxing day ride. Present were myself, Ivan, Steve D, Derek and Duncan. Weather was quite blustery but also quite mild. This was a new short early bird ride, the 'Hankham Hailsham 34 Miler'. With it being Boxing Day, we had the roads mostly to ourselves although we did pass a few cyclists including our very own Simon N and Doug. The first part of the ride through Ninfield and Bodle Street was quite hilly. Myself and Derek were a bit off the pace as I was recovering from the Nora virus a few days before while Derek had not done enough training in the last few weeks. Duncan was determined to push himself hard as he has been too busy to get out much with his new job, Steve was in good shape having still managed to keep up his weekly training mileage despite the wet weather. On arriving at Cowbeech Duncan had our one and only puncture which gave me plenty of time to admire the newly formed lakes all around (used to be fields). From here it was fast riding and I seemed to get a second wind, the last 15 miles flying past easily. This was another good winter route which I will repeat again before the end of the season.

Thumbs Up For Boxing Day!

Distance 35.2 miles
Av speed 14.5 mph