Glad you got home safe Darren. You did well today. The weather was horrible.
Dan don't worry about it. We'll be out next week on a slightly easier route I think it was surprisingly hard work today.
7 of us today. Myself, Geoff, Roy, Nick and Carrie H, Chris and new rider Darren. The route was over to Porthcawl via Fountains lane and past Wigglies. The hills weren't kind and the Fountains lane hill always gets forgotten about until you're half way up. It stayed dry until about 3 minutes after starting to ride. Then the rain was off and on. Getting worse on the descent past Margam. Where, unfortunately, Darren had a puncture. Nick, Roy and myself turned back to see if he needed any help. But he got a lift home from his wife. I think he was the sensible one.
From there we all headed to Broomwagon with the rain easing off again once we got to the outskirts of Porthcawl. Nick took Carrie and Chris the wrong way (he tried to blame Carrie but we know the truth) so Roy, Geoff and myself were already sat down and warmed up when they arrived.
After a refreshment break Nick requested Mount Pleasant hill on the way out but I had to head home to cook Sunday lunch. So we split up me heading back to Llantwit and the rest heading to Mount Unpleasant.
Had the rain held off, like the weathermen reported, it would have been a much nicer ride. I shall leave myself a note next time I want to use my new bike in the winter to not bother.
