Reading Time: 2 minutes A beautiful day for a club run with a difference. Forty or so of us set out from the British Legion (including what I think was a record eight women: Carol, Caroline, Elaine, Penny, Fiona, Nikki, Emily and me). We headed off in two groups towards the cobbled climb at Bollington – all went well in my […]
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Describes Sunday Club Runs and other road runs.
Henbury (Short Run) – 17th June 2013
Reading Time: 2 minutes I think it was a first, other than during late January and February, that more people headed on the long run than the short! For those that headed on the short run, the destination was chosen as Henbury to be lead by Ian Smith as Al was having a weekend off on the back of […]
To Romiley the hilly way
Reading Time: 2 minutes A hard 70 mile ride today, led by Jules et Jim. (If you don’t get the reference, google it, under French films!). We three, plus Kev, Carol, Tony, Tim T, Chris G, Ewart and Titch made it to the cafe – Gareth, Rob, John K, Craig and new rider Penny turned off at various stage en route. We rode […]
Newbies ride to Wheelock
Reading Time: 2 minutes We had a good turn out today, with about a dozen setting off for the long run into the hills, and the rest of us heading in a large group of 20+ to Wheelock. This group was a bit too large for even the most sympathetic drivers, so we split up again just before Goostrey. The […]
What An Adventure – A Bigger Big One 400
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jim made his own way to Poynton for the 9 o’clock start to this 400k ride. Syd picked me up at 7.30 and off we went on a beautiful morning. On arrival we prepped our bikes, picked up our Brevet cards and with Jim, went for a pre-ride coffee. As we sat in the sun […]
Two Mills (again…)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Definitely one for a caption competition… An eventful run! Kev had dreamed up a route to Blaze Farm for the long run, which he announced at the Legion only to be met by a widely expressed grumble of “but that involves hills” (indeed it does, radical I know for a cycling club to cycle up hills!) followed by universal bottling out. So […]
Holt (Short Run) – 12th May 2013
Reading Time: 2 minutes Still gripped with Cheshire Classic fever it was great to see so many ladies out at the Legion this morning including Nikki, Elaine, El and new rider Nicky. Nicky’s story is a good one, in that having always enjoyed cycling she’s been building up the miles ready for a London to Paris attempt. She caught […]
Prees May 12th 2013
Reading Time: 2 minutes A good turn out at the Legion today with two new riders, Nicola (good to see our girls’ contingent increasing in number) and Anthony. A warm welcome to them. The short run went to Holt; I joined the long run to Prees, along with Jim W, Bruce, Ewart, Richard M, newish riders Peter and Jamie, […]
A Little Big One
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now the longer days are here an audax man’s thoughts turn to the bigger distances working towards a series of 200k, 300k,400k and eventually a 600k. A number of our members have entered a 300 next weekend and some daft people have to check the route to make sure the instructions are ok and there […]
Summertrees (Short Run) – 7th April 2013
Reading Time: 3 minutes To celebrate the club run returning to it’s 9.30 (booo = less sleep) Summer start time, Al put together a classic route to take the short run to Summertrees. A route steeped in heritage, created by a certain Terry Veal years ago which features every hill en-route including The Yeld and Chapel Lane (the hard […]
Chirk 200km [take two]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, another go at the Chirk 200km Audax [it wasn’t cancelled last Sunday ] took place on the 31st March [not weeks later like some events we could mention ! ] So while the club run was regaling the fact that big Al had kept the start to the winter time of 10am [to allow […]
It’s summer time!!! (Is it?)
Reading Time: < 1 minute I know it doesn’t feel like it right now, and your leggings are clinging to your legs like a limpet, but it’ll soon be time for shorts and shaved legs!! So, from this Sunday, as the clocks have indeed sprung forward an hour, club runs will meet at 09:30. You can now look forward to […]