Let's be honest, the weather in March was wet, very wet, but we persevered and managed to ride every Sunday, even in the rain. We were able to visit some new café's such as The Old Clunker in Dorking and The Yangaz Bistro in Cranleigh, as well as some old favourites like Tanhouse Farm.
A few of us even managed to ride our first 200Km Audax as a club and proudly flew the HWCC colours when we cycled the Kingston Wheeler's Gently Bentley Audax. Many congratulations to Tim, for whom this was his longest ever ride. Well done Tim!
We also managed to hold a few meetings to discuss our London to Paris ride in July and we have most of the details agreed now. We just need to cycle more often to get ourselves ready for this epic adventure. Now that the clocks have finally shifted and we can enjoy more riding hours of daylight, it shouldn't be too hard to ride longer and further. Every year it seems the five months of darker nights takes a lot longer to pass and we can finally return to lighter evenings, but here we are at last.
We have some epic rides planned before we embark to Paris though, so our training really needs to start now. As with anything we do, the more we practise, the better we perform. We have some long distance rides coming up and we need to separate these by some shorter, recovery rides at a more relaxed pace to give our members a good variety of ride distances.
As mentioned last month we have now moved our virtual Zwift rides to Tuesday evenings. The lighter nights mean we have resumed our Wednesday night pretzel rides around Richmond Park, with the plan to host these events every week, weather permitting. Keep an eye on our Meetup for all our events and request to join us to come along on these rides.
We look forward to meeting you soon. In the meantime you can use some of the links at the top of the page to view our social media channels.
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