Here's the picture of today's ride - 103.4km (taken from my house), moving average 16.5 kph, 3053 calories (someone asked!) Mark
Well the weather certainly lived up to its forecast - strong winds and showers interspersed with lovely sunny periods!
B Group set off from the Greeno at the start of what looked like a prolonged shower, so a couple of minutes into the ride we stopped and some of us donned waterproofs - regretting it perhaps by lunchtime when it was fine and sunny and we were well and truly overdressed! There were 14 of us: Judy, Liz, Stephanie, Louise (on her first ride with the group - welcome and hope we see you out again), Brian, John G., David S., Bill M., Bernard, Cliff, Norman, Mark, Charles and me, Gill. Lunch was to be at The Duke of Edinburgh at Woodside, to the west of Windsor Great Park, which meant head winds along much of the way! There were also a few hills, so the morning's ride out through Chertsey to Pentonhook, Thorpe, Egham, up Middle Hill to Bishopsgate, across the Park to Ascot Gate, Cheapside, past Ascot Race Course and into Woodside by a back route, proved quite challenging.
We arrived at the pub at 1:20p.m. to find it fairly full but,with a table already laid for us, we were made very welcome and food was shortly being brought to the table. A brief shower just before we left at 2:30p.m. meant a few damp saddles and anything else left outside with the bikes, but these were soon dried off and we had a speedy and mostly sunny ride back through Windsor Great Park, down Tite Hill back to Egham, to the towpath at Staines, back to the road at Laleham and through Shepperton to Squires Garden Centre in Halliford Road for tea. Here I left the group as home was just round the corner and the remaining nine headed on towards Hampton Court led by John G. Thanks John for being back-marker during the ride.
Gill Finlay
B Group set off from the Greeno at the start of what looked like a prolonged shower, so a couple of minutes into the ride we stopped and some of us donned waterproofs - regretting it perhaps by lunchtime when it was fine and sunny and we were well and truly overdressed! There were 14 of us: Judy, Liz, Stephanie, Louise (on her first ride with the group - welcome and hope we see you out again), Brian, John G., David S., Bill M., Bernard, Cliff, Norman, Mark, Charles and me, Gill. Lunch was to be at The Duke of Edinburgh at Woodside, to the west of Windsor Great Park, which meant head winds along much of the way! There were also a few hills, so the morning's ride out through Chertsey to Pentonhook, Thorpe, Egham, up Middle Hill to Bishopsgate, across the Park to Ascot Gate, Cheapside, past Ascot Race Course and into Woodside by a back route, proved quite challenging.
We arrived at the pub at 1:20p.m. to find it fairly full but,with a table already laid for us, we were made very welcome and food was shortly being brought to the table. A brief shower just before we left at 2:30p.m. meant a few damp saddles and anything else left outside with the bikes, but these were soon dried off and we had a speedy and mostly sunny ride back through Windsor Great Park, down Tite Hill back to Egham, to the towpath at Staines, back to the road at Laleham and through Shepperton to Squires Garden Centre in Halliford Road for tea. Here I left the group as home was just round the corner and the remaining nine headed on towards Hampton Court led by John G. Thanks John for being back-marker during the ride.
Gill Finlay
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