This week’s ride was not worthy of a blog to be fair, but I would hate to buck with tradition & protocol. That said, some of you will be pleased to read that this will be shorter than usual-Lol.
As the venue for
the day was my local cafe, I felt obliged to turn up, despite having intentions
of an easy 20 miles in mind, due to yet another injury. So, I had no intention
of leading a proper ride for the Mod+ crowd. As it happens, none of the
usual Mod + crowd turned up, although Steve Hu was there, but he only wanted to
ride home easy, which was exactly what F&E wanted as well. Both
had ridden to Alison’s. So, my plan to ride to Chester and back was ideal for
them, as it would provide them a circular anticlockwise route back home.
I think there
were approximately a dozen members gathered at Alison’s, but I don’t know what
the other group rides were. I heard Trev and DH discussing options to the
south, but Trevor was wary of going too far because of the threat of rain
later. I
know DH was considering his now favourite Malpas - who would have thought -
Lol.
There wasn’t a
Brisk group, Just Rapha Ray as the token fast rider. DM
was there along with ‘non elec Ray’, who has become ‘electric Ray’ again-Lol,
due to him arriving on his brand new electric Orbea. Last, but not least
were George, Mike Gilbert and Keith, they all seemed happy to go with the flow.
Yet again there
was a threat of a decent downpour after 12, so my trio and I got going sharpish.
As we pulled out
of Alison’s, ‘last min.com’ passed us heading in. We quickly dissuaded him from
joining us, letting him know our ride was not worthy of his fast legs, so I
assume he may have made a pair with Rapha Ray.
Two or Three
miles later we were tapping it along the canal road, at a good pace, due to the
cross-tail wind, as opposed to my legs. Through Waverton
heading for Christleton, we turn left into Birch Heath Lane. Once there, we
turned right toward Littleton and a crossing of the A51. Fiona and I got across
straight away, but the other two were obviously half asleep and took ages to
cross, I was about to turn back to look for them, when they came into
sight-Lol. It wasn’t long before we were crossing the A41
into Hoole Ln, which is a simple option into the centre of Chester.
Only 2 miles
later we arrived, adjacent to Evans Cycles, which is where I left my group of
three, to carry on home via Handley bridge. I believe their plan was to part
ways at Doddleston, both having roughly 4 miles-ish to their respective homes
from there.
Meanwhile I
turned left for Tattenhall via Huntington, Bruera, Platts Lane and another
crossing of the A41. Tattenhall was just 3 miles and then my final Frog Lane
and yet another crossing of the A41 and home, with only a few drops of rain
after only 21 miles.
The others made
it home without incident, F&E
got a bit wet apparently and Steve just had a few drops like me.
An unusual
morning, all in all, due to many things, but no less enjoyable. I
didn’t even need to clean my bike, what a bonus.
Till next time
people-Lol.
Neil T
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