Ride Report - Sunday 20 November

 

Bob, Mark, Diane, Sabina, Bernard, Keith, Terry, Graham and Brian joined me at elevenses on a lovely sunny morning.   All of us except Bob set off to follow the route Simon had devised to take us to The Royal Oak at Brockham, where Simon, who had been due to lead but was unexpectedly unable to ride with us, had also booked us a table.   The lovely route took us over Headley Heath, down Pebble Hill and around Betchworth and Leigh, in territory but rarely visited these days by the C & M. 

Our departure from elevenses had been uncharacteristically punctual and at lunch we were surprised to be joined by Ray and Rachel, who had arrived at elevenses just after we had set off!   Of lunch I will just say that my packet of crisps was excellent!    It had clouded over by the time we set off for home, and, once we had cleared the today rather mushy Coach Road we hastened along as fast as we could to try to out-run the rain.   Unfortunately, it struck just after we had gone our separate ways at Leatherhead.   Recently it seems that no ride is complete without at least a short spell of rain!

Thanks to all for your company, to Simon for doing all the organising, and to Graham for back-marking all the way.