Three Wheelers met at PC on a mild and dry morning that was dominated by a strong southerly wind. Showers were forecast and we had a couple during the ride but they blew through very quickly. At the end of Red Barn Lane we met Harvey who joined us for a good 20 miles, including our stop at the mill.
We had an easy ride north west through Kelling, Wiveton to Blakeney quay, followed by a much harder leg uphill and into the wind to Langham, then Field Dalling, where Harvey slipped away on a shortcut. By the time we had reached Sharrington we decided to take our own shortcut direct to Letheringsett, in order to miss out the leg towards Glandford and back into the wind to Letheringsett. So Harvey was surprised to see us sat in the mill when he arrived!
The café served light lunches and between us we had soup, quiche, sausage roll and cakes plus tea and coffee, which was all very good. The café was also fairly busy and included a couple of other cyclists, so we weren’t the only ones out in the wind.
So after a leisurely lunch we headed uphill and south again, this time to Thornage, at the Stody turn Harvey headed for home leaving three to climb to Melton Constable and on to Hindolveston. Then it was a mainly easterly leg via Thurning to Heydon where we finally turned north and had the wind on our backs, through Heydon Park to Oulton and Itteringham. Here Chris had a front puncture (Marathon Plus) which was a good sized thorn. When that was fixed, he must have been trying to make up for lost time as he left us in his dust as we headed home via Thurgarton, Gresham, where Andrew turned off and back to PC.
PC to PC with our shortcut was 46.8 miles (instead of the planned 49.7) with an average speed of 13.3 mph.
Riders were Chris S, Andrew B, Mark M and Harvey.
It was agreed that it was a good ride out, mainly dry, testing into the wind but a great tailwind.
Next rides and club runs – Wednesday 11th to the Crown at Trunch and Saturday 14th Purdy’s at Aylsham
See: https://nnwheelers.co.uk/club-runs/
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