As is becoming a regular for a Sunday morning, I cycle up Leckhampton Hill to meet the Sunday morning cyclists at Cowley. It’s lovely for Al, Caroline, Jackie, Ric and Nigel to welcome us into their well established Sunday morning group where Al plans a different but invariably hilly route each week, with the essential coffee and cake stop. We rely on Caroline to check the route to ensure Al hasn’t got carried away with the hilly component of the cycle! It was drizzly and dreich for most of the cycle but a welcome stop at The Chedworth Farm Shop, helped energise us for the ride home.
The weather may not have been kind but the company was great and we managed 55km and over 1,100m of hills. (I’ve to climb 3,700m on the first day of The Raid Alpine over 137km!)
Challenging Times 