Thursday night and come what may, it's the AVP Evening Ride. This has become a bit of a ritual of late and one few things are going to make me miss. Amazingly, and this will probably be the comment to end it, over the past few weeks, Thursdays have been one of if not the best day, weather wise, in the week. Having fuelled up earlier in the day with fish & chips on the beach I was ready to burn some calories!
The holiday season seems to have really kicked in this week as our peloton number was down to 11 tonight. With a junior bunch of riders, and I don't mean just in age, Andy, one of our most experienced members took the lead in marking out our route. Andy likes a hill or two so burn calories we did!
Heading first over to Colyford to place our order for apres cycling chips, yes again, we headed back towards Seaton and then looped anti clockwise up to Axminster across a busy A35 - not the best idea we've ever had - and over some very bumpy cycle tracks. I was regularly switching modes on my front forks to cater for the different terrain, something I think the road bike guys would have appreciated having the ability to do.
Out of Axminster we took a an extended loop around Shute Barton, with its impressive gatehouse which had to be included in the backdrop of a hastily taken picture before racing off back to Colyford before we totally lost the light. The nights are really drawing in now and I think I've only a couple more weeks of this evening ride left, unless I purchase a set of heavy duty spot lights as I hear the AVP do get out for a bit of night riding ... not sure about that though!
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| Tean shot at Shute Barton |
The route art for those of an artistic disposition out there is a leaf .. can you name the tree?
Stats: 24.4 mi, 1h:58m, Avg 12.3 mph, Max 34.9, 1,362 kcal
Perhaps a beech tree? Chips twice in one day ... the food of champions!
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