Well it wasn’t icy and it wasn’t raining but it it was damp and gray with a cold north easterly breeze but at least we had some climbs to look forward to warm us up. Heading out via Eastwell, to drop down Stathern, up Harby, down Long Clawson, to reach the halfway point. Then heading back to Barkestone, to turn toward everyone’s favourite Terrace, where the backwind helped, onto Woolsthorpe then either back up Denton for the 39 mile route or Casthorpe followed by Swine Hill (46  mile route).

Thanks as ever to Tony H for manning the HQ and brewing the tea, Alan E for the photos and Dave B for the en-route back-up

39 Miles

Carol Milne, Russel Newman, Louise George 13.9 m.p.h   Mark Colclough 15.2 mpg

46 Miles

Mike Ainsworth, Ian Metcalfe 14.1 mph

Julie Clark, Ian Rayson, Simon Cocker, Martin Lister, Martin Milne, Matthew Kingston-Lee 15.8mph

Darragh McBride 17.0mph