Tell us about your weekend ride

Out with HDW inc Clubman today

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Chris is hilarious to ride with, on our way back at windsor he was muttering that the pace needed to be dropped a bit, I was flagging so was happy about this. Chris took the lead and we were off again at over 20mph. In the car on the way back he was talking about French band desinee this is a distraction tactic- I think he is a closet Belgian hard man.

Prancer is mistaken about my origins - my lack of skill in French pronounciation does not qualify me as a Belgian.

I may have been doing 20 mph after Windsor (we did have a tail wind), but I'm sure I was going slower than the two previous leaders.

Our route yesterday is one of my favourite TR's. I believe it's good for the ride to have a* denouement* - a point where it becomes clear who is the strongest - after which everyone can relax a bit. On this one it's the second major climb - the one up to Stokenchurch. It's not steep, but there are nearly two miles of it and since we've already done about 45 fairly hilly miles it's usually enough to sort out the real hard men. Although the road here is the main A 40 there are amazingly few cars on this section, presumably because it's so close to the M 40.

 However in these days of super bikes I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't make things a bit more challenging by leaving the B4009 at Chinnor and doing the much harder ascent of Chinnor Hill to Bledlow Ridge. One disadvantage would be that I would be so far off the back I wouldn't see any of the action.

You will note that we did not do the 100 mile ride as advertised. It was decided to postpone this because of the rain but we hope to have another go in two weeks time (our Road Race is next Sunday, so no ride then).