Amblers Step-Up Ride - Sunday 14 June

[Mark Pope]

Due to the large number of Oggies taking part in the Velothon this Sunday, I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to arrange the first monthly Amblers' Step-Up Ride. This is aimed at 25ers looking to step up in pace and distance as well as the usual group of Amblers who want a less frenetic ride than usual . For this Sunday I propose a 40 mile route with a stop for coffee at Café Velo. The pace will be no more than an average of 16mph and there are no serious hills on the route. We will all stop if anyone punctures and re-group at various locations to ensure everyone remains together.

The start time is 9am and my proposed route is:

Bracka - Treoes - Llangan - City - Aberthin - Welsh St Donuts - Peterston Super Ely - Bonvilston - Llantrithyd - Flemingston - St Athan - Llantwit - the Lanes - Southerndown - Ogmore - Ewenny - Brackla

See you Sunday

Mark

[Jonny Jones]

Hi mark,

New to this group- Seen a few of you guys out and about the past few months and I want to get some club rides in! Bumped into Hayden on Sunday and he mentioned there were a few groups that head out on Sunday's from physique car park?

Any chance I could tag along this Sunday? Route looks good. Hopefully weather comes through!

Cheers.
Jon

[Mark Pope]

Hi Jon,

We'd be delighted to see you on Sunday. Just roll up to the Physiques car park just before 9am. There'll probably be less riders than usual due to the Velothon but it'll be a good ride to gauge which group you should ride with in the coming weeks.

Mark

[Mark Pope]

A pleasant ride around the Vale this morning with 11 riders setting out from Brackla. As advertised the ride was slightly shorter than usual at around 40 miles and we kept to a reasonably sensible pace (16-17mph ave depending on your speedo tool of choice). We were joined by a couple of Newbies today  (Jonny Jones and David Richards) who coped comfortably with the pace. We had a coffee at Cafe Velo, which was unusually quiet today, probably due to the Velothon, so we were able to all get a seat and were served very quickly. Ambling around the Vale and Coast today were:

Tom
Wayne
Chris Reed
David Richards
Jonny Jones
Mystery Guest (AKA the OVW Stig)
Mark Pope
Clayton
Marshall
Andrew Storrie
Bugger, I've forgotten one!

Mark

[Paul Nicholas]

Think I passed you going in the opposite direction through Ogmore this morning, looked like you were all smashing it!

[Tom]

Thanks Mark-another enjoyable&well organised ride-just with 14,989 fewer riders!