Audax rides

Tour de Ricky 200 on Saturday. Good route, not really familiar with any of it as I mostly stay south of the M25. Start/Finish at Woodoaks farm which had some incredible cakes in the morning and good selection of beers from Creative Juices Brewery at the finish.

First control was in a farm shop where you had to waddle a good 150m through the deepest gravel car park I've ever seen, it was almost like a ballpit, I'm sure toddlers have vanished without a trace there. Rode past another farm shop at like 90k, thought about stopping for some food but surely there'd be another one or a cafe of some sort in 10-15k, right? Nope. Regretted that. Lunch was a couple of naff sausage rolls from a corner shop.

Riding through a nice valley and saw about a dozen or so large birds of prey circling above, buzzards or red kites perhaps? Then loads of little bunnies popping in and out of the hedges... Dunno if the birds were eyeing up the bunnies for lunch or not but I was soon out of there before it got all Planet Earth.

Classics and Supercars meet at Stonor Park was wrapping up and a few really nice cars overtook me on a climb; Ferrari Dino, Porsche 356 Speedster and an immaculate E-Type Jag in British Racing Green. All drove past slowly, gave me as much space as they could and waved. Nice.

Nasty little climb just after Marlow (Kiln Lane?) at 185k or so confirmed I didn't have much left in the legs and then roll through suburbia and back to the farm for a pint then Metropolitan line back to Farringdon. Bunch of pissed up Sunderland Fans got on at Wembley and started mocking me: "Why don't ya ride yer bike maaaate? Wasss it doin' on train, lad?..."
Attention swiftly turned away from me when one of them lost balance and twatted his head on a pole.
Good day out.