B Group - 24th April

An elite group of six B cyclists set off from Caterham-on-the-Hill just after 11 o’clock. It had rained heavily while we had our elevenses but we took advantage of what seemed like a break in the rain – actually we were very fortunate and we stayed dry all day. We left the A riders pondering the weather forecast or perhaps having another cup of tea.

Once we had climbed up to Woldingham we had the open road in front of us, rumoured to be the highest tarmacked road in Surrey. Then on the Pilgrims Way we had wonderful views across the wide open Kent countryside.

Lunch was above 600’ in Ide Hill at The Cock Inn and then we had a pleasant afternoon ride across lower but equally open countryside, ending up in Banstead for Tea.

Well done and thank you to those riders who braved the adverse weather forecast and the promise of hills.

J.A.

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John took us on a fabulous ride yesterday and the price of quiet roads and marvellous rural vistas was of course quite a few big hills. So it was a bit of a gut buster with over 1000 feet of climbing just to get to Elevenses, and then by my very conservative method of harvesting the elevation data, another 2580 feet of climbing during the day, although 2874 feet according to Strava, unlike A Group who appeared to get their hills over with soon after elevenses.

~ Tim

Author: Tim C

2 Comments:

Fixie-Dave 27 April 2019 at 19:22 BST

Many thanks John for leading us up & up the garden path, into the garden of England. A salubrious ride. Over 4,000 feet for me, I was thinking whilst riding that maybe I should have joined the "A" group for a rest. But I would have probably just got to know the back marker well.
Dave C

Steph 28 April 2019 at 05:52 BST

And well worth the longer afternoon as we avoided the A25 almost completely. The cut through the back of Bletchingley to Merstham is always a lovely route back. Thanks.