[Morganite]

Weather looks good for Friday at present and scattered showers Saturday, if on Friday there is heavy cloud when we get out of Neath we go to Port Talbot and pick up the Carten route to Cardiff.

I will keep you updated as the week develops 😆

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Stop press

Roger beat Andrew today by 8 minutes

A statement from Mr Allan, says he has now achieved his life long ambition in beating Andrew and will now retire with immediate effect.

The UK Anti-doping Agency has released a statement saying they will launch an investigation and will be testing for beetroot juice.

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We will plan to leave Bloomfield at 9am, anybody who needs bags taken to Cardiff if they can be dropped at Ian and Kim house the night before, we can collect them first thing Friday, or bring them to Bloomfield. Thanks

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there seems to be a number of fellow riders doing the Angel, if we plan to meet at 8.15 that will give time to register and get going at 9.

Weather looks good at present.

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Matter of interest who is doing the Angel

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Now having spent a week with Ian and knowing his intake of food, i propose the following stops.

Liz Bakery in Narbeth before we leave. then a stop in the Alpha in Tavernspite. Little chef in St Clears then on to McDonalds in Carmarthen, then we will have an ale stop in Golden Grove inn,LLanarthney, then to Great Western in Ammanford,probably to unload some of this food, i am sure Ian will have is big thick book with him to read on the toilet. then on to Pontardawe, we have to stop here one for Andrew, The Butchers Arms. then to the Pump House in Neath, now there could be a problem as the next stop is the Burger Van on top of the Bwlch, i have not been above to contact them yet to see if they do Veggie Burgers. we will miss Treorchy as we will be running out of time, on to Tonypandy stop in McDonalds, just incase we have not had enough McDonalds another stop in LLantrisant, then on to Cardiff, there will be a number of places we will be passing on the way in, so we could stop in at least 3 or 4 places to keep Ian going.

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All

Here is the long awaited route to Cardiff. I have taken Bloomfield as our starting point, we head to Princess Gate, Tavernspite, middle road to LLandowror. Main Road St Clears, Carmaarthen,on the B4300 LLanarthney, out at bottom of LLandilo towards Ammanford, Pontardawe, Neath, Cimla hill, out at the bottom of the Bwlch, over the top, Treorchy, Tonypandy on A4119 all the way to Cardiff.

It is 101 miles 4800 ft climbing the only big climb is over the Bwlch which is steady and nothing to worry about

Here is the link http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=387044

The route back is 106 miles and 3000 ft climbing

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Here is a video on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSoBh309X2Y

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Roger What was that down hill 😆

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For these interested here are stats from last week

Monday 22 Miles 1.5 Time 12.5Average 2100Gain ft

Tuesday 59 Miles 3.24Time 17.2Average 2211Gain ft

Wednesday 86 Miles 5.25Time 16.0Average 4011Gain ft

Thursday 23 Miles 1.44Time 13.0Average 305Gain ft

Friday 58 Miles 4.26Time 12.8Average 6411Gain ft

Saturday 39 Miles 2.31Time 15.0Average 886Gain ft

Sunday 83 Miles 6.07Time 13.6Average 8802Gain ft

Total 370miles 24.07hrs 15.0Average 24726 ft gain

These are my stats gives an idea of what we completed, Ian speedo did not work so he has no idea what he done, and on Saturday Andrew decided he had not done enough and went to the lighthouse, another 26 miles 2600 ft climbing.

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My better half is going to ferry everything up and ferry everything back no passengers aloud.

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it goes the same way again, and there is one before that Devils Elbow, this sounds good to Not 😥

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Weather looks good it is going to be cold

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