Amblers' Club Run - Sunday 16th August

[Mark Pope]

Reasonable forecast for Sunday, which makes a nice change this Summer, so I thought a trip to the seaside for coffee and ice cream would hit the spot. The proposed route is:

Brackla - Ewenny - Post Office Hill - Llandow - Cowbridge - A berth in - Welsh St Donuts - Gwern-Y-Steeple - St Brides -Super-Ely - St Fagans - Culver house Cross - Wenvoe - St Andrews Major - Dinas Powis - Penarth Marina - Cosmeston Lakes - Barry Island - Porthkerry - Rhoose - Llantwit Major - Wick - St Brides - Southern down - Ogmore  - Brackla.

I haven't checked the route in detail yet but there's no change out of 60 miles. We can have a coffee stop at Coffee Cove or Coastal Cafe in Barry which have inside and outside seating and room for bikes. The ambitious can also try the Custom House Hill Strava challenge in Penarth (200 metres at 15%). See you at 0900

Mark

[harpo]

Don't worry I'm not coming!

[Mark Pope]

A great ride today in excellent conditions and once again taken at a fair old lick even without our star lead-out man Harpo . We mostly stuck to the planned route, heading out to Ewenny and up Post Office Hill and across the ridge to Llandow and down to Cowbridge. We then headed across to St Fagans and through Wenvoe towards Penarth. I threw in a moderately cheeky hill in Dinas Powis just to bring the gallopers back to heel, before a brief tour of Penarth Marina and Custom House Hill. We had a pleasant stop for coffee and cake in Barry Island before hammering back home via Porthkerry Park, Rhoose and Llantwit Major. A few of us took the soft option of the reopened Death Valley sprint home, leaving ace mile muncher Terry Anthony to stick to the plan and ride around the Coast Road.

The total distance was just over 62 miles at around 17mph average speed. Out today were:

Kirsty Gower (new member, a very strong rider, gusting the Pacers)
Mal
Tony J (hope your mech is sorted soon)
Terry A
Tony M
Lee S
Wayne
Chris R
Jonathan Spink
Neil Bartlett
Mark P

One piece of sad news is that club stalwart, Wayne, may be leaving the Club in the next few weeks as he's emigrating to Merthyr Tydfil with his new job. I think we should club together to pay his bus fare to get down to Brackla for Sunday club runs. If he does go he'll be much missed.

See you next week

Mark

[mal jones]

Was last sun ride a bit quicker than usual? Terry reckons the teterstorone had kicked in because we had a member of the opposite sex with us . See you next sun for some more punishment and move Kirsty up to pacers thanks mark