This year's ride starts in the Colicci cafe at Roehampton Gate in Richmond Park, and ends at the coffee stall near the river in Battersea Park. Lunch is at the Phoenix in Alexandra Palace. All three venues know we are coming.
The ride is mainly on roads and tarmacked park paths but there is a couple of miles of off-road disused railway track, gently downhill, in the afternoon. The surface is rough, similar to the paths in Ashtead and Epsom Commons.
There are two tried and tested loo stops in the morning.
Please assist your leaders in a prompt departure, because it would be best not to have groups catching each other up in the centre of London.
The afternoon is nearly all downhill or flat, but if riders want to get the train home (and miss out on the ride through the City!) then I recommend Thameslink from Finsbury Park. We pass within four hundred yards of the station and leaders can point it out. By the time we get back to Blackfriars we will probably have missed the 4pm cut-off for taking the bike on the train.
Attached below are the final route (which is no different from the final recce route) and also, should anyone need it, a route from the finish back to Richmond Park. There will be leaders available at afternoon tea to take those who need it to a place from which they can confidently make their way home.
Here are the runners and riders;
Group 1, departing 10.00 led by Dave Vine
Steven Duffin
Sue Chasty
Dave Ward
Gina Coulson
Alan Clark
Guy Dawson
Group 2, departing 10.10 led by Simon Lambourn
Brenda Breen
Steph Wyatt
Patrick Watmough
Neil Warland
Jane Fox
Group 3, departing 10.20 led by Clive Janes
David Bartholomew
Christina Berkley
Simon Whelan
Jennie Jackson
Dave Jackson
Group 4, departing 10.30 led by Paul James
Ged Lawrenson
Bob Pannell
Peter Betts
Paula Buckton
Sue Chasty
Maggie James
Group 5, departing 10.40 led by Madeleine Shearer
Sandra Bayliss
John Bayliss
Frank Carter
Julie Buckman
Carolyn Beer
Group 6, departing 10.50 led by John Austin
Lilian Chelli
Frank Barnsley
Helen Tovey
Tony Hooker
Anne Walker
Pat Dobson (only as far as Battersea park)
Tim Court (to Battersea Park)
Enjoy the ride. The weather is looking favourable!This year's ride starts in the Colicci cafe at Roehampton Gate in Richmond Park, and ends at the coffee stall near the river in Battersea Park. Lunch is at the Phoenix in Alexandra Palace. All three venues know we are coming.
The ride is mainly on roads and tarmacked park paths but there is a couple of miles of off-road disused railway track, gently downhill, in the afternoon. The surface is rough, similar to the paths in Ashtead and Epsom Commons.
There are two tried and tested loo stops in the morning.
Please assist your leaders in a prompt departure, because it would be best not to have groups catching each other up in the centre of London.
The afternoon is nearly all downhill or flat, but if riders want to get the train home (and miss out on the ride through the City!) then I recommend Thameslink from Finsbury Park. We pass within four hundred yards of the station and leaders can point it out. By the time we get back to Blackfriars we will probably have missed the 4pm cut-off for taking the bike on the train.
Attached below are the final route (which is no different from the final recce route) and also, should anyone need it, a route from the finish back to Richmond Park. There will be leaders available at afternoon tea to take those who need it to a place from which they can confidently make their way home.
Here are the runners and riders;
Group 1, departing 10.00 led by Dave Vine
Steven Duffin
Sue Chasty
Dave Ward
Gina Coulson
Alan Clark
Guy Dawson
Group 2, departing 10.10 led by Simon Lambourn
Brenda Breen
Steph Wyatt
Patrick Watmough
Neil Warland
Jane Fox
Group 3, departing 10.20 led by Clive Janes
David Bartholomew
Christina Berkley
Simon Whelan
Jennie Jackson
Dave Jackson
Group 4, departing 10.30 led by Paul James
Ged Lawrenson
Bob Pannell
Peter Betts
Paula Buckton
Sue Chasty
Maggie James
Group 5, departing 10.40 led by Madeleine Shearer
Sandra Bayliss
John Bayliss
Frank Carter
Julie Buckman
Carolyn Beer
Group 6, departing 10.50 led by John Austin
Lilian Chelli
Frank Barnsley
Helen Tovey
Tony Hooker
Anne Walker
Pat Dobson (only as far as Battersea park)
Tim Court (to Battersea Park)
Enjoy the ride. The weather is looking favourable!
Paul
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