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It was frustrating not to be able to ride, and now it seems my presence would actually have been useful.
I think a run like this does really need someone who knows where he is going, and it seems to me that older riders (like myself) have rather taken for granted that there would be a younger generation coming through who would replace us as leaders. My experience of the navigation abilities of others, especially outside my own club, is fairly limited, but I must say it does seem a strange turn of events that I can still go on early season training runs (probably a similar level of effort to this Oxford trip) and be confident that I won't be dropped - not because of my riding abilities but because I'm often the only one who knows the way home!
I'm keen to pass on what knowledge I have. I've written an article on leading training runs (originally for my club magazine) which I will post here as a new thread, but I need to find a suitable photo to go with it.
Perhaps we might have a ride( or rides, even) in the Autumn when some routes might be learnt. I fancy Tring and back, but the distance can be adjusted according to conditions and strength of riders.
I say Autumn because although I am healing after that crash, it's not proving to be a rapid process - I'm not near to getting back on the bike yet. I'm committed to a (non cycling) holiday starting in late August so I'm not likely to get back to any sort of fitness before then.
I'll report back when fit.