Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
This is another LonJog "training" ride, but all are welcome.
This won't follow the same path as the previous ride, as it goes more easterly, so stays on the other side of the A5. It will be slightly hillier, but a similar mileage, at 76 miles and only 1 drag of a hill with a 10% gradient in Kimpton, with everything else less than that.
After escaping Northampton, the route heads out into the rolling countryside through Horton, skirting around Newport Pagnell, and then joins onto a route I've used a number of times before, such as on my Leicester rides, to go past Cranfield Airfield, Marston Moretaine, Flitwick, Barton-Le-Clay, avoiding Luton (trust me, it's for your own good), South Mimms and then down through Barnet to London.
The lunch stop will be around Barton-Le-Clay just before the half way mark, and we'll stop off at a supermarket later on, for re-fuelling.
As before, rolling average will be 12-13 mph, so not a super speedy ride and no-one will be left behind. Plenty of bail out points, as we generally are within 3 miles of a railway station for most of the ride.
Edit - sorry, forgot to say the start time, which will be 10.30 as per last time.
This won't follow the same path as the previous ride, as it goes more easterly, so stays on the other side of the A5. It will be slightly hillier, but a similar mileage, at 76 miles and only 1 drag of a hill with a 10% gradient in Kimpton, with everything else less than that.
After escaping Northampton, the route heads out into the rolling countryside through Horton, skirting around Newport Pagnell, and then joins onto a route I've used a number of times before, such as on my Leicester rides, to go past Cranfield Airfield, Marston Moretaine, Flitwick, Barton-Le-Clay, avoiding Luton (trust me, it's for your own good), South Mimms and then down through Barnet to London.
The lunch stop will be around Barton-Le-Clay just before the half way mark, and we'll stop off at a supermarket later on, for re-fuelling.
As before, rolling average will be 12-13 mph, so not a super speedy ride and no-one will be left behind. Plenty of bail out points, as we generally are within 3 miles of a railway station for most of the ride.
Edit - sorry, forgot to say the start time, which will be 10.30 as per last time.
