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  • #21743
    Morganite
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    This Sunday Route S1 Freshwater East Loop (45 miles)

    Bloomfield at 9am See you there :D

    #24822
    ValleyMan
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    We need to do some training for the Civic Week Ride….

    #24824
    Sweaty Eds
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    No need for an extra training surely, Valleyman.

    I’d assumed that the Civic week ride would be like a usual club ride. Everyone meet at Bloomfield between 9 and 9.05. Tweak agreed route slightly, adding or avoiding hills depending on allegiance. Set off in a group full of good intentions about staying together, split on first hill/fast section/corner, regroup a couple of times then start formation peeling off for home. Continue above for three or four hours until one or two veterans left with new member then leave them miles from home on the hills. Do it all again the week after.

    We’re great at that already, no need to practice!

    #24825

    Good to see you all today briefly. Rhysie tucked in behind someone as always ;)

    I was breaking in a new Dynamo, he said he’d be on board this Wednesday.

    We did the short IM loop with a few extras, lovely day for it.

    #24826
    swancvs
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    You guys can’t have done the short loop, you were going the wrong way! Although you looked a fine phalanx of Dynamos as you flew past us on the ridgeway.

    Hope you had a good time!

    #24827
    butcherboy
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    It was a great ride. Good weather and great company. I think we all looked the part in our club colours. It must of looked very impresive to Swanny and Slinky us riding past them in our peleton. Stayed together and stuck to the route planned. See Sweaty, we can do it!!

    #24828
    ValleyMan
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    A tetchy start this week with several of the assembled throng suggesting that another of the assembled throng needed to pull his finger out and get the Civic Week Bike Ride posters up, especially as they had been working night and day to get them ready for the middle of last week.

    The point having been made the discussion turned to the arrangements for the Civic Week Ride. Jaws hit the floor as our illustrious chairman uttered the words ‘coffee stop’. ‘We could stop at the café at Lawrenny for a coffee and make the prize draw there’ suggested Andrew but then thought, ‘What if no one has any money’. ‘We could pay for the coffee’ suggested Jonathan, ‘but what if hundreds of people turn up it could bankrupt us’ retorted Andrew. ‘unlikely as no one will know about it’ muttered someone under their breath….

    Anyway, down to the business of cycling. A good turn out – Andrew, Jonathan, Anthony, Dan, Leighton, Celia, Kim, Richard and myself. With two exceptions (you know who you are) all were sporting the Club jersey and a fine sight we looked as we headed off following a route set by the once again absent Huw. There was much chatter about having to be back for 12, which looked rather optimistic looking at the 45miles route with almost 3,000ft of climbing.

    There have been a few disparaging comments on the forum of late (see above) suggesting that as a Club we delight in scattering our members across the county like so much confetti with a survival of the fittest, dog eat dog, mentality from the off. This poor deluded poster clearly must have got us confused with someone else as nothing could be further from the truth. This is exemplified by the Club motto:

    Nemo adepto reliquit post

    (apologies to the classically educated, blame Google translate…)

    The sun (yes sun) shone as we rolled along through the very green countryside. I am not sure if it was the matching jerseys, but we were even cycling like a Club; Redberth to Carew was dispatched in a perfect 2 row peleton.

    After a regroup at the top of Milton Hill (OK so a few small gaps appeared at times…) Celia and Leighton decided they would peel off at Lampey; Andrew on the other hand seemed less concerned about getting back for 12.00 although we were making reasonable time. It was noted that we would be arriving in Pembroke at about the same time as the Velo’s event was taking place.

    As we approached the bottom of St Daniels Hill a very nice marshal directed us left clearly thinking we were leading the pack and seeing the Dynamo’s shirts, who could blame her. Her colleague about 100m up the hill stopped the oncoming traffic for the right turn on the event route and looked most confused as we continued (to power) straight on.

    The spectacular views as we headed towards Freshwater East were enjoyed a little more by the two ‘Fresh East virgins’ in our midst who had no idea what was about to come than perhaps the rest of us. Congratulations to Jonathan who was determined not to resort to the method of cycling up hills recently perfected by Roger and stayed in the saddle all the way to the top.

    Andrew decided that the run back to Tenby would be an ideal opportunity to perfect our team time trialling abilities. This generally went well (apart from when Anthony and Richard reached the front; new bike syndrome and Apricot bars respectively) and we must have looked an imposing sight as we sped through Lydstep with the width of a fag packet between wheels. (Clearly we did – thanks Slinky and Swancsv).

    Once in Tenby, Andrew decided that perhaps after all he did need to be home at a reasonable time and accompanied by Richard took the direct route back to Narberth along the main road. The remaining five of us then followed the cross country route home, with Kim, Jonathan and I peeling off at Valley Road leaving Dan and Anthony to scale Narberth Hill by themselves.

    Next week the Civic Week Bike Ride, 20miles and coffee!

    #24829

    I must admit you did look quite the part when I saw you fly past. The new tops look slick. I was explaining to the wanna-be-dynamo that the group has never never been that organised before and he shouldn’t expect anything like it again, especially when the Slink is mixing it up mid-pelaton.

    Looks like Slink is moving holts (I think that’s what an otters ‘house’ is called) this week, so I’m not around mid week. I’m all guns blazing for Sunday though.

    #24830
    Sweaty Eds
    Member

    Humblest apologies to all for suggesting it was club policy to speed off, I realise now it is part of the initiation process. Hard love, if you like, similar to the story of Hansell and Gretel, if you can find find your way home and turn up again next week…you’re in son.

    I enjoyed translating the club motto, my computer seemed to think Nemo was a fish, the adepto bit it wasn’t sure about but this must be the origins of the word adapt, reliquit is obviously without and the post bit could be a pole or stick or such. The only translation I can make sense of is ‘We can go fishing without a rod’. I love Ray Mears and all that survival stuff, is the Slinky Otter going to show us how to tickle trout?

    #24831
    ValleyMan
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    Your tallents are clearly being wasted in the health service, you should be working for the Foreign Offiice. I think if you and Slinky want to go off to tickle the trout there are perhaps more specialist forums available where this thread could be continued.

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