• This weekend's ride was the best I've done in ages. Rode up from Forest Hill to Hyde Park Corner to meet 16 others at midnight for a ride out through Aldgate, Bow, Stratford, Romford, Ilford, Brentwood, Stock, the Hanningfields, Maldon, the Tolleshunts, along Mersea Island, tiny ferry over to Brightlingsea at 6am, Harwich, another ferry to Felixstowe, breakfast on the banks of the Deben at about 9, another boat over the Deben and then a gentle roll up through Tunstall, Snape and Walberswick and over the river to Southwold, arriving at about 2.30 for some glorious Adnams before riding down to Darsham for the train back to the smoke, rounding it off with a ride home through SE London to bring the total to 150 miles.

    ooh nice. Maldon and back is my standard flat century route; might have to steal the rest of that.

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