over the hill gang

Roger couldn't make the Tuesday mtb ride and because I'll be on the mtb (btt) in Ibiza all of next week :) I went for a road ride with the over the hill gang.



Today's ride was out to Heaven Farm near Danehill.

Yet another beautiful day. The back roads were a bit greasy from the fallen leaves, but no one was being heroic today and we had a nice steady ride. A 100 km in around three and three quarter hours.

I find chickens around my feet a little unnerving.

Sunday Ride

I keep thinking it's the last, but autumn keeps squeezing out one more day of great riding.



A bit cloudier today and the sun took longer to burn through, but the trails are still bone dry and hardpacked. We barely saw any mud and the roots were just on the right side of grippy :) Even the bridleway past High Ashes farm had a dry route through it! Normally only dry in high summer.


Me, Paul and Jane took in three and three quarter hours of the Surrey Hills' finest singletrack, with the obligatory 'burn up' across Deerleap on the way back, where Jane attacked us both on the last section. I just about managed to get back on before Westcott.

And just as I think my courgette plant has given it's last, it produces another :)

Autumn in Surrey

Today was the invitational ride for the swrc, the idea is that we invite non members to try a club run. Me, Jane and Roger opted to guide an mtb ride. The road rides had a response, but we had nobody. We hadn't really expected anyone to turn up, Cobham isn't a great place to start a mountain bike ride. It seems that most mtb'ers like to ride to the 'trailhead' as it were :)

So me and Jane rolled back over through Cobham common and up onto Polesden Lacey(Roger had remembered that there was a Surrey league x country running race this afternoon and was most expeditious in zipping off home to get changed). From what was a freezing cold morning emerged a beautiful warm sunny day....again! This month has been fantastic. This area has lots of Beech trees and a good deal of the ride was spent crunching through crispy leaves and beech nuts. We spied a few fungi en route but without our SoCal fungimeister with us to identify them, we let them be.

We did spot this sign for the lco:)

On the road to Camilia Botnar

According to the oldsters in the club it's the social season, which means rides with tea stops......hurrah!

So me and Jane set off for the Camelia Botnar garden centre in thick mist and a chilly 14'C.

We've had lots of nice weather like this for the past month, chilly misty mornings, with the sun arriving to burn through and reveal beautiful blue skies.

Today was no exception it was so warm, that we sat outside at the café. Jane ate all of the little rocks of sugar and felt a bit giddy until it kicked in at Col du Colgate!

Now my legs hurt :-)

The Sugar loaf from the

Today we got back to the Sundayrider's winter walks in Wales. Today was the not often visited trek to the summit of the Sugar loaf via the route for the Three Peaks Challenge.

After spending the summer walking and running in Ibiza, the lco was much faster than last year. Jane was of course mostly running some 'hill repeat sessions' to 'earn' next month's golden figure :-) Ramón had cold hands.

The weather was mainly cold with icy rain on the summit.