B Group 24^th January

What a Day!

The A’s left before the 6 of us eventually left at 1130 – there was a similar marked reluctance but go we must. Nice to have the wind behind us (for all of us it had been a struggle to get to Dorking – my normal hour’s run turned out to be not far short of 90 mins).

Speedy progress along the cycle route to Leatherhead and then on to Cobham where Terry decided any further North was not just not on (discretion being the better part of valour) so he headed back to Dorking into the wind. The rest of us carried on to West End where we felt the full force of the 100% rain, past Wayneflete Tower (on a fine day we would have stopped) and on to Thames Ditton and Ye Olde Swan.

There we found the alternative B Group (definitely B Minus!) sitting down dry and warm, eating their lunch.

They were spared the pools of water which formed under our table. A very honourable mention must go to the 5 of us – Vic, Tony, Tim, Ian and myself - very definitely a B Plus group - not forgetting Terry of course.

The service on the B+ table was dire but it enabled the B- group to have time for their deserts and coffee. Outside the rain had not gone away.

Needless to say there was no appetite for an afternoon ride.

Peter T