This is a rather complicated one to get your head round! Tony and Carolyn joined us for a pleasant ope-air elevenses at Cafe Barbera, Stoke d'Abernon (still now preferred to another venue in the area we have always used until recently) but than made their own ways home! Ed made his own way from elevenses to lunch, and Keith joined us for the first part ride of the ride to lunch but left the rest of us before we rediscovered, for the first time in some while, what Plough Lane, Cobham looks like when not submerged! Helen turned for home just before we reached Epsom, leaving Mark (making a welcome return after a few months off his bike), Diane, Terry and me to continue to Epsom Wetherspoons for lunch. Here we were joined by no less than Bob, Ray, Ed, Ann and Graham! I make that 13 members altogether out for some part of the ride!
The route had a lot of off-road sections including Green Lane, Cobham, Oxshott Woods, Princes Coverts and Ashtead Common (where Diane and Helen provided invaluable navigational help and assistance on mud-avoidance). Generally, considering how wet the past few months have been I should mention that the paths and tracks we used were pretty dry, thankfully! And I must not overlook the highlight of the route, the florally-decorated pill box on Stokesheath Road!
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