Reply To: Sunday ride, 7th April

[stoneditch]

I really enjoyed Sunday. At almost 15MPH up to Crymych we have all really come on. I think that the Winter Turbo sessions have to take the credit for that, for me anyway. The climb out of Crymych was touch and go with a J Edwards Gold coach being far to close for comfort. Sweaty, Matt and I could have jumped aboard it was so bloody close.

The descent to Blaenffos (I think) was pretty quick, Garmin reckoned on 47MPH we must have shown that other CC, who were parked up on the right, that the dynamos are a force to be reckoned with. Although you couldn’t tell our allegiance as we were all wrapped up. It was pretty chilly by the time we stopped at the bus stop above St Dogmaels.

The less said about my coming off climbing out of St Dogmaels the better. At least I didn’t bring Andrew down as well!

So, after we all split up before and after the Bwlch. I followed Huw’s route to parts of Pembrokeshire that I had never seen before and although beautiful some of the steepest roads I have ever seen. Just continuous climbing on 20% and more gradients. Not really what I needed after the Bwlch but, good for ToP I suppose. After climbing yet another hill out of Vicars Mill I came across Donna, Ffion, Seren and Leighton all going great guns.

After getting back onto the A478 and turning south back home I looked at the elapsed miles on my Garmin, disappointed to see that I had only done 58 miles. It had felt like 98 by then so, I just toddled off back home content with the burning sensation in my legs and a recovery shake to look forward to in front of the telly to watch the recording of Paris-Roubaix.

So to summarise 63.8 miles, 6797ft climbing and 2496 calories. Not bad for a Sunday…