Re: Sunday 17 Feb Ride

[celia]

Oh alright then 😉 First of all, I apologise for anyone who I forgot, or whose name I have forgotten, I don’t get out much!

We continued up to Maenclochog, where we met the rest of the bunch. They had taken an alternative route to meet us. The chairman decided that we had hung around for long enough and we head off with Dan rushing to scoff his snack that he had just opened. I chatted with Mark, who has entered ironman and was planning on getting some base miles in, and then Nick G who said that his friend (Darryl) had just been on a gruelling training camp doing hill reps, and that there would be a lot of testosterone flying about. Thankfully they were determined to do 100miles so with a muttering of “sorry, Strava” at the base of Mynydd Preseli they dissapeared up towards Cardigan http://app.strava.com/activities/41233657#686950801

We stopped to wait at the top of Mynydd Preseli (will we never learn?) where it was blowing a gale. So all decided to wait at the bottom. It was pretty scary coming down, and one of those moments when I wished that I was heavier. Jonathon shot past me in the tailwind of a small white car, who had to gesture at him to slow down with a hand waving out of the window. At least I think that was what they were gesturing 😯

We regrouped and found that we had lost one (or 2?) members going down the hill, we assumed that they had gone home, and not been blown away onto the moors. The Gwuan valley was beautiful (but cold out of the sun), and then we started the climb out. This is when the headwind hit us. Ants was ahead and the Chairman breezed past me to shelter behind, I could hear someone was behind me, but didn’t know who, then Leighton passed and we bridged up to Ants, and the chairman, we continued in this line to the top, and sensibly decided to wait at the bottom of Mynydd Preseli for the remainder of the broken peleton. (thanks, Ants for the shelter!)

We decided to cut the route short, as some of us were running out of brownie point time. We set a blistering pace down the lovely smooth B4329, (another moment when I wished I was heavier as everyone came zooming past downhill) and turned left back to Clarbeston rd. I abandoned the group at the T junction to Llawhaden (I think, from talking to other people that the group splintered off in different directions at this point) I arrived home an hour later than I should have done, to a surprisingly good humoured husband making lunch. I really enjoyed the ride but probably won’t be out again for a while, need to accumulate those points again!

Total time 4:29

Moving time 3:37

etc etc

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