Assisted by a flat parcours and the presence of a rider who normally rides with the fast group, we set a brisk pace along the green mile, through Treddington and over to Greet. The appalling road surface on the main road towards Broadway was quickly lost as we took a...
The ten riders were keen to get started, and it was a fast pace down the A40 to Birdwood. It all settled down in the lanes, caping up at Soudley and removing them again before Parkend. Descending “The Rocks” near Clearwell was interesting, but disc brakes...
Today was the final and hilliest day of the Tour de France Femmes. It was also the first road stage of the mostr brutally hilly of the grand tours, the Vuelta a Espana. To honour these two events, the ride leader picked a particularly brutal way onto the Cotswolds....
I have often said that you have to go uphill to get to Northleach, but I don’t think you have to go up as many hills as the tempo group did this morning. The constant succession of hills, coupled with narrow lanes meant that there was no opportunity for...
As a ride leader, you dream of uneventful rides, where there are no mechanicals, navigational problems or splits in the group, and this morning’s ride was just that. To avoid anticipated congestion in Thornbury, the tempo group diverted to Eastwood park garden...
