Clifton CC

Okay, running late with the weekly email update but computer just about now wired up and working again, so here are this Saturdays rides in brief:

10am, Exhibition Sq

K ride: Wolds Ramble - dist about 70 miles.
Buttercrambe - Kirby Underdale - Thixendale - Fimber - Wetwang - Huggate - Warter - Nunburnholme. Cafe options Pock and Millington (if a big group might have to have split cafe stop).

Intermediate ride: Thornton le Dale
*longer route option (Ryedale Rumble prep!) return via Langdale End dist about 95 miles.

11am, Exhibition Sq
EasyRiders this week heading out to Thixendale, 70-75km back 5pm latest.


Good Luck to Darren Quill, doing his first Ironman this w/end.

Looks like I got the easy ride this weekend. Just 112 mile. Oh I forgot it all started at 6 am with a nice refreshing swim of 2.4 miles. I was'nt lonely, just another 1200 people trying to swim over me.
Great, survived the swim. Now for a long day in the saddle. Things were going well. Due to the club rides the hills seemed quite flat. At least thats what I thought on the first lap. By the 3rd and final lap I can assure they were mountains and there was no cafe stop. Never been so glad to get out of the saddle and go for a run. The first 3 miles were cross country through ankle deep mud. Never mind just another 23 mile of tarmac to run. Run, I was shattered, it was more of a shuffle. Ok it might not have been a 3 o'clock finish like Darren N and the Girls. But finish I did just before 7.30 at night a total of 13 Hrs 27 mins. Never again. But thats what I say when I get drunk but still do it again.
Darren

Hey, goodonya Rustyman, well done! Huge congrats from me. I know how long you've been focused on that event and you must feel stoked that you completed it. Excellent! Can't wait to hear your survival stories when we next see you out on the roads.


D.