While some 20 of us were enjoying a week of cycling and eating in the South of Mallorca, Bernard and Sabina did their own thing on the west coast, including the ascent of Sa Calobra. Read Bernard's account in our 'Sou'Westers on Tour' blog:
https://souwesters-on-tour.blogspot.com/2025/03/sa-calobra.html
While some 20 of us were enjoying a week of cycling and eating in the South of Mallorca, Bernard and Sabina did their own thing on the west coast, including the ascent of Sa Calobra. Read Bernard's account in our 'Sou'Westers on Tour' blog:
https://souwesters-on-tour.blogspot.com/2025/03/sa-calobra.html
Author: Tim C
Our ride on Wednesday from New Haw Day Centre (KT15 3ET) is to the Good Intent at Puttenham (20 miles) and return to Cobham (another 20). All on road (though I may tweak the route to include a tarmac path).
Outward via Woking, Fox Corner and Tongham returning via Shackleford, Farncombe and my "Marmite" route avoiding Guildford centre - this climb to Warwicks Bench being the only "hill" according to my Garmin.
We are required to preorder.
Please email me by 5pm on Monday with your lunch order for a place. At present I don't have a subleader for a faster group so a volunteer would be welcome.
Author: Brian
You are invited to join the ride next Wednesday from Woodham and New Haw Day Centre (KT15 3ET) to Lightwater and then back to Hampton Court for tea. It will be a mere 12 miles to lunch but many of you will have cycled quite a way to 11’s already:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49887180
Fortified with lunch, we then have a longer afternoon ride back to Hampton Court for tea. Café TBC.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49887345
We are having lunch at The Red Lion in Lightwater and they would like us to pre order:
Menus - The Red Lion Lightwater
Please can you send me your lunch choices by 5pm on Monday sue.foster39@gmail.com
Hope you can make it.
Sue F
Author: Sue F
Jennie J wrote:
My group left the hall in Cobham on time, there were eight riders including one that hadn't ridden with us before and one that had only been out once before, anyway, welcome to you both.
The route to Tolworth was a fairly simple one, Bookham, Cobham again, Thames Ditton and Surbiton and then finally to the Restaurant. About 19 miles in total including a section of track, and we managed to arrive spot on at 12.20.
Many thanks to Diane P for back marking thus keeping the theme to celebrate International Women's Day.
We were then able to park the bikes and have a great lunch, really good to catch up with people I hadn't seen for a while.
Same again next year?
Thanks to all on the ride.
Jennie J
 |
| Cool, but look at the sky! |
Janice D wrote:
After Jennie’s group had departed Richard, Steve D, Ged, Neil W, Patrick, Dave V and myself set off in a southerly direction, heading for Tolworth in the North. It was a glorious day of blue skies and sunshine so no one minded where we were headed as long as there was a 3 course lunch at the end of it!
Familiar roads and a change in
direction gave way to a devious route through some very nice roads in Surbiton
after which we were spat out into Tolworth Broadway and our tried and tested
annual lunch spot at Restaurant Sorrento.
As always the staff coped admirably with serving so many hungry cyclists!
Thanks to Jennie for organising the
route and Dave for back marking. Also to Sue and Tim for the short and sweet
speeches and presentations.
Janice
Author: Tim C
The Winners
 |
| ( click on the sheet to enlarge ) |
Here are the winning photos and links to the albums for all the photos in each category:
6.1 Person or people (male) (Drake Cup)
 | |
| photo by Sue B |
6.2 Person or people (female) (Colour Cup)
 | |
| photo by Madeleine |
6.3 Action (Albert Welvaert Memorial Trophy)
 | ||
| photo by Tim C |
6.4 Scenery/Landscape (President's Trophy)
 | |
| photo by Simon |
6.6 Humorous or funny (Snapshot Trophy)
 | |
| photo by Ged |
6.7 Best Group photo (Pete Mitchell Memorial trophy)
 | |
| photo by Diane |
6.8 Hors catégorie (no prizes)
%20Dave%20Cullen.jpg) | |
| photo by Dave C |
Photos
arrive in this HC category for numerous reasons, not delivered before
the deadline, not showing an obvious link to cycling, not taken by the
person submitting the photo, exceeding the quota of two photos per
category, or not meeting other criteria for the competition. But they
are good photos all the same so we are pleased to be able to exhibit
them along with those in the main categories.
Thank you to Ken Day, Paul Day, Graham and Gill Holder who judged the photos this year, (along with myself).
When our Chairperson Sue Foster addressed the multitude she explained that due to the high total cost of having the engraving done for the 13 trophies presented today we had suspended the engraving of all trophies until a full discussion could be had at our AGM to agree the way forward.
The 'Over the Top' cup was awarded to Paul James for his published account of the heroic assault made on the famous Alpe d'Huez by Maggie and himself.
You can read Paul's article on page 12 in the Nov/Dec 2024 digital edition of the Sou'Wester:
'Another Bloody Hill' by Paul James
Thank you to those who served on the specially convened sub-committee (Ged, Richard, Maggie, Sue F, Dave V.) for reading through all the articles to arrive at the winning entry for this prize.
Thank you to Mick Arber for undertaking the amazingly complex task of analysing the attendance data for all sections of the club to discover the winners of our two attendance trophies.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the competitions and congratulations to all prize-winners.
Author: Tim C
Author: Sue F
