Amblers Club Run - Sunday 11 Oct

[Mark Pope]

The Broomwagon is open tomorrow and the weather forecast is reasonable so I thought we'd have an amble to the seaside. The route is:

Brackla - Coychurch - Treoes - Llangan - Pentre Meyrick - Llandow - Llantwit Major - Wick - St Brides - Southern down - Ogmore - Ewenny - Dipping Bridge - A48 - Porthcawl - Kenfig - water St - A48 - Hafodheulog - Tondu - Bryncethin - the Common - Pencoed - Coychurch - Brackla.

It's around 50 miles and we'll stop for tea and cake in Porthcawl. See you tomorrow.

Mark

[Dave W]

Any plane geeks out there? the vulcan is doing a fly by tomorrow before being retired..be cool to see it on a club run over st athans
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/710/82/Latest-on-National-Tour.html

[Mark Pope]

There were 9 Amblers out today for a brisk trot around the Vale and Coast. We headed out via Treoes, Llangan, Pentre Meyrick and Llantwit before turning West towards Ogmore and Porthcawl assisted by a fresh Easterly breeze, hence a very un-Amblers like average speed of 18mph when we reached the Broomwagon for tea and cake. After the break we returned home via Kenfig, Hafodheulog, Tondu and across the Common before a mini chain gang from Pencoed to Coychurch to finish the ride. The total distance today was around 54 miles at an average speed of 17.5mph, although we were helped by a generous tailwind and flat (ish) route ( well it felt flat but I've just noticed it included 700 mtrs of ascent) . Out today were:

Tom
Neil Bartlett
Tony M
Terry
Mal
Jonathan Spink
Andy's dodgy knees
Mark P
Roy 2

See you next week.

Mark

[mal jones]

Really enjoyed the ride mark but nearly ran out of gas going over common had just enough to get me over the hill and into coity

[Mark Pope]

Glad you enjoyed it Mal. You looked pretty frisky with some strong turns on the front. You'll be giving us all a good kicking by the time we head off for Majorca.

[Dave W]

Good pace guys  think you should all step up next week to the pacers.