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John Mac and Alex Powell rode this. The previous day Alex had completed a 200km out of Great Dunmow with PW. This had had better than expected weather. However, this meant that the delayed bad weather moved to this ride! It was a long way … more ->

This was a lovely ride with light winds, dry roads and hints of spring sunshine as the day progressed. Graham and Peter rode out to Victoria CC’s Ugley hut, which meant an early rise to make the 9:00 am start time. On arrival they found … more ->

Met up with Alex (& briefly MarkT) for a 07:30 start from Dunmow.  With a reasonable tailwind, we headed north via Lavenham to the Snetterton race circuit at an average of 16.5mph.  It was a bit slower on the return (13.5mph) especially as it got … more ->

After many days of freezy weather we were promised a day of relative mildness.  It was quite windy on both the SW & N bound sections, and the hills in the Chilterns didn’t help much either.  After getting to Chalfont St Peter via Radlett, Bushey, … more ->

Can’t be bothered to explain the name of this Audax other than to say there were four pubs with the name "Compass" that were used as info controls.  Not feeling up to it I didn’t ECE this one, and I believe I made the right … more ->

Set off down the old A120 from Thremhall Park at 07:40 expecting ice and a headwind – and got neither.  Got through Braintree and then dropped down to Kelvedon for the start of the calendar event at 09:30.  Again this went fairly smoothly although the … more ->

This ECEing lark works quite well for me – don’t have to get up so early to drive all the way to the start.  This time it was just a short car journey to Sawbridgeworth and at 07:30 I set off from there to do … more ->

Been doing a bit of weather watching of late and saw that Wednesday would be mainly fine but that it would deteriorate towards a colder spell by the end of the week.  I needed to get in a second 200 this month leaving me with … more ->

An Extended Calendar Event is a mechanism whereby it’s possible to enter a Calendar Event, in this case the Essex 3 R’s, but by riding tofrom the Arrivee it can be counted as a longer ride, and I needed another 200 to complete the RRTY … more ->

The day started off with a fairly dense fog, and never improved.  Got to Fairlands and found out that my start-time was 10.25.  With nearly 240 riders taking part, smaller groups started at 5 minute intervals from 10.00 until it was our turn.  The first … more ->