Sunday saw the regular running of the Tour de Romney et Rye, a charity 100km ride organised by the rye rotary club.
JV and myself decided to ride over there from Battle, because 100km isn't long enough these days...and we had a free pass for the afternoon and we were going to make the most of that. We left a foggy and cold Westfield and met Nick Sargant on the way.
After a brief pit stop in Rye public toilets we then met David Morris (not IN the toilets) and made our way to sign in and get ready.
There was a good turn of riders, 140 apparently.
After a bit of shouting from some bloke with a bell we head off across towards Camber.
We then spend the next 10 miles trying to get them to ride in an organised chain, but to no avail.
Some, mostly us, putting in monster turns up front, others were happy to get towed along in our draft.
So we decided to sit behind them and do our own thing.
We arrived at the halfway signing in point in Hythe at the cafe to be greeted to a vintage motorcycle rally, the cafe was heaving, so decided to make our way to our favourite cafe in the town square in Hythe instead for a very welcome bacon roll and espresso sized cup of rocket fuel.
As Nick and David had to be back we retraced our steps back across to New Romney at a fairly brisk pace.
As we sped our way across to Appledore, it became evident that David was finding the going a bit tough.
Riding out in the marsh is pretty hard going sometimes as there's no descents for recovery, and you have to be spinning the whole time.
So we managed to pull the wounded soldier back to Rye just in time for tea and medals.
We then said our goodbyes, JV and I set off back home, we decided to go along the coast road and up and over Battery hill which really punished our already tired legs, and then finally made our up to Battle via Catsfield, where we then went out seperate ways after another century ride.
Overall a great day out.
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