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On Sunday August 14th.
OK - so seaside air is supposed to be beneficial.
This ride is aimed at getting a day-full of it.
Day-full = just shy of 60 miles.

Train leaves London Victoria at 08.05, arrives Canterbury East at 09.32.
We head out from there along the traffic lite Stour Valley, any serious climbing being done and dusted as we leave Canterbury.
There's a cake / tea stop at the garden centre at Preston (at around ten miles) if we want it.
From then on it's pretty much downhill all the way (almost) to the coast at Sandwich and from then on we follow the (Viking Trail) route around the coast to Faversham and the train back to Londres.

Loads of rail-bail places en route, once we reach the coast.

Lots of very different resorts we pass through.

95% on tarmac or concrete - there's some optional on otherwise - perfectly doable on 23's.

Pace will be conversational to easy to walking - we'll be weaving in and out of folk outside of their beach huts for significant sections of this ride.

Loads of opportunities for bites / lunch as we pass through resorts. Ramsgate rears it's head as a favourite for lunch at the mo - but we can see how we get on.


Short notice, I know.
Sorry.
 

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sounds great User10571.. though with the FNRttC the friday/saturday, I will be pushing Mrs Ian's patience. So next time...
 
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sounds great User10571.. though with the FNRttC the friday/saturday, I will be pushing Mrs Ian's patience. So next time...


Fairy Snuff!
It's partly with post FNRttC riding that I had this in mind - but I can understand Mrs.I's angle on this
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sounds lovely . . . . .. but it's the road race trial that day and there was talk of beer. . . what to do, what to do

I know - and I was aware of the clash when I posted.

Two very different rides.

If you're looking for a PB on your HRM on my ride, you're in the wrong place
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I'll see how knackered I am after Bognor I reckon - a pootle by the sea does sound nice though

It's going to be gentle.
No willy-waving, no harsh environments.
 
I am so tempted... but I suspect my eyes are bigger than my stomach. So to speak.
Although... if I don't make the FNRttC for some at-present-unknown reason, I'll try for this.
Sounds a lovely day out.
 
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I am so tempted... but I suspect my eyes are bigger than my stomach. So to speak.
Although... if I don't make the FNRttC for some at-present-unknown reason, I'll try for this.
Sounds a lovely day out.

You're more than welcome to join. Forecast (FWIW 5 days in advance) is looking good.
 
A Coastal route from Canterbury to Whitstable seemed like a lovely Summer Sunday Ride. Despite being a bit shattered from the FNRttC Bognor Regis the day before didn't stop me from waking up at 4am - a little earlier than necessary. I headed to Victoria Station at 7.30, met User10571 and LouiseL so we could catch the 8.05 to Canterbury East. At 9.30 we met up with Flying Dodo and then went on a really, really lovely route through Kent. It was very pretty. Garden Centres make exceedingly good cakes I discovered! We rode through village after village, past apple orchards brimming with apples imminently ready for the picking (not by us but by their owners), grazing horses, cattle (some from the Highlands - clearly following Flying Dodo from Durness!), blue, blue sky and traffic-free lanes it was all so pretty. Along we went, aiming for a disused power station at Ri-borogh. Beyond that an empty Phizer plant which is a bit like an industrial, uninhabited Port Meirion. Then to the seaside. Fish and Chips at Margate (I'm making that up I have no idea where we were!) I learnt that there is a more sustainable fish than cod - (Flying Dodo may advise!) and that a Savelarde is a sausage not a fish. My culinary knowledge regarding fried food is clearly too limited!

We headed northwards, always keeping an eye out on the sea with its gulls, tankers, shipping lanes, yachts, wind farms and swimmers. I know we went through Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs and Herne Bay but not necessarily in that order...!

At one point a child ran along side us and kept up at 10mph. Not bad at all! If I knew how to sing the Chariots of Fire music I would have done!

Next week LouiseL is doing the PBP. Now that is really impressive. 766 miles in 3.5 days. I thought of Arallsopp and his lovely book "Barring Mechanicals" and that picture of him lying on a wooden floor in some hall somewhere, sleeping, looking like a tadpole. No duvet, no pillow, no room service, no more than 20 minutes kip and then off again. I wish LouiseL the very best and despite the withdrawl of creature (indeed any) comforts it is one big achievement.

We made our way to Whitstable, took a fine cup of tea (Guinness for one) and caught the 7.10 train home.

It was a great day. And my first year of cycling. Bye Bye Raptobike and Hello Boardman. What fun I have had. Thank you Admin, Dellzeqq, Suzie, Arallsopp, Ianrauk, Mista Preston, User10571, Topcat1, Teef, Frank9755, Andrij, The Claud, Olav, Titus, Flying Dodo, Adrian Becs, Davy Walnuts, McWobble, Martin235, Red Jedi, ttcycle, Zimzum42 and everyone else who has helped me with my cycling and to everyone who has made me laugh out loud on CycleChat. Lucky, lucky me!


I took some Pics


Big thanks

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