Club Ride Diary
Who’s counting?
The Steady ride left the Square with nine riders. Confusion was caused by the ride leader completely forgetting his planned route, leaving those who had loaded it to their bike computers rather bemused. Loyally they followed, to be joined by Tesh who was undeterred by...
Intermediate loop ride a good option
Four Riders left the square to set out on the Intermediate Ride. On a glorious autumnal morning they headed out on the A40 towards Birdwood. From here they turned left to proceed through Kents Green towards the beautiful Flaxley Valley, which was followed by a long...
Weather or not
After another dry week. Unfortunately the change in the weather was due to occur on Sunday, blustery winds with plenty of rain were forecast from 10 am onwards. So not many (fool) hardy souls arrived at the Square - actually there were nine of us, five opting for the...
Wet, but I’ve been wetter.
Following the logic from last week's ride, a company of us set off on the Tempo ride. Unsurprisingly the weather forecast had deterred many people from venturing out. We too had looked at the forecast, and at the threatening grey clouds scudding across above us. The...
Steady Ride to Soudley
Twelve riders left the square on a very overcast and still Sunday morning. We departed Gloucester via Westgate Street and over Westgate Bridge, through Over Farm and on towards Tibberton. On reaching Whitehall Lane Malcolm turned off to undertake a more off-road route...
Two’s company
A crowd of us set off on the Intermediate loop ride. I choose the term carefully, based on the well known saying that "two's company, three's a crowd". Actually there was really only two of us, but as no-one turned up for the Tempo ride the leader for that joined us...
Meandering to Newent
Fourteen riders (yes, fourteen) appeared on a post storm Amy windy morning. The weather forecast being fine, but with a strong westerly, I thought it would be “a Billy no mates ride” but not so. The Captain offered to manage a respectable break in the group, and with...
Amy’s tail
Four braved Amy's tail. Teeth were gritted and headed into a stiff cross head wind courtesy of the tail of storm Amy. With some good team work we made coffee by 11.15 where one of the team wanted his breakfast but wasn't up for a 30 minute wait, so it was coffee and...
The fast and furious
Labelled as the ‘faster’ training ride, we set off from the square with five riders. We started off at a steady pace on a simple route up the A38 towards Tewkesbury. The route out to the Malverns was very pretty flatish and we averaged around 19mph for the first hour,...
Two-up intermediate ride
Feeling like "Billy No Mates" in the square, I had resigned myself to trying to cling onto the fast ride, when one rider asked "Are you running the loop ride". What a relief! So it was that two of us set off for Cleeve Hill, and as it was just two, it was easy to find...