2009-07-04 Sat - Dunwich Dynamo 2009

I was riding with Daniel, whom I'd met on the Exmouth Exodus last month, and who's a strong rider training for LEL. We'd started out from Dunwich together with Greenbank and his mate Scott, but inexplicably lost them in the annoying gravelly lane just after/before (depending on whether you were going from or to Dunwich). Greenbank, what happened? We waited for you for a good while, but no news. Hope you were alright/didn't have a mechanical!

Sorry about that, we had a slightly different route in our GPSes (it differed from this years route in two places near the end) and we decided to stick with it rather than risk being taken off route and then dropped, sorry you waited for ages for us, we tried to shout to you to just carry on.

Can't have been far away from you, we bumped into someone else cycling back saying he'd been riding with you but couldn't keep up. We then saw Daniel pass through Great Dunmow as we were grabbing some food in a cafe. You're right that he looks like a strong rider, he'll enjoy LEL (as will I, but probably not with as much time in hand).

I got back about 45 minutes ago as I had to finish my ride in Putney (as planned for my DIY Audax ride). 434km in total; a shade under 27 hours from the start in Dorking and a ride up Box Hill on the way to Hackney. Need beer and to burn all of the clothes I was wearing.