A proper November day today, with a damp chill in the air, but Pete B led us at a brisk pace that kept the cold at bay. Circuitously from elevenses at Claygate to lunch at Wetherspoons, Woking, then back by canal and river to tea at the Walled Garden, Sunbury.
31.2 miles at a moving average of 8.8mph and 1,397 calories, which should have just about covered my bumper slice of cake at tea.
Mark
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With Summer (both proper and Indian) well behind us, some 18 A's, led by Pete B (with Graham Hill kindly offering to cover the rear), set off from Claygate on a chilly and misty morning. Following the B's for a while before taking Stokesheath Road and Sandy Lane through Fairmile to Knipp Hill and Water Lane. Across the Tilt to Downside where the leader delayed the pack for a while with a puncture. Down Pointers Lane to negotiate Junction 10 of the M25 and follow the A3 to the Wisley footbridge.
Past Pyrford Lock and Newark Priory to take Papercourt Lane towards Send and then through Cartbridge to Old Woking. Here a diversion on a, new to most, signposted route through Woking Park took us into the town, albeit on the wrong side of the railway, which required carrying bikes through the pedestrian underpass before lunch was taken at the H G Wells. Here we were joined by 2 more who had missed the start. Then, with no sign of the temperatures improving, it was along the Basingstoke Canal, which was looking most Autumnal, to New Haw. Up through Woodham and Row Town to Addlestone and over the railway to the backroads of Weybridge.
Crossing Walton Bridge it was clear that preparations are now well underway for its replacement. Then, turning right into Penny Lane, a never seen before view of the Shepperton Marina before rejoining Fordbridge Road to the Walled Garden in Lower Sunbury for teas and large slices of cake followed by returns home under still leaden skies.
PeteB
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1 comment:
I think CTC probably stands for cake to cake!
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