I might try the Hurst Wokingham stage of the chaingang league at 5pm if anyone wants to join me?
Apologies for joining late. I was watching the Vuelta and lost track of time and jumped straight into the race.
Thought I was going to catch you using the FW advantage I have and the fact that I had a carrot to chase helped as well.
I didn't save the ride though to keep everything fair and square in the league.
Pity there wasn't a video view to watch but I was visualising the roads as we went down the Nine Mile Ride and along the back of where the AAAC (Arborfield Army Apprentice College) used to be.
In fact if you look at the ride on google earth your see Nufield Road that was the main road in the collegue an you can still see our old parade ground to thesouth of it which was surrounded by 5 wriggly tin spider blocks on the east and another 5 on the west, the cookhouse to the north and a brick three storey block to the south. Then we turned right by the site of the Balleau Baracks used to be and cut across to the road to Wokingham.
Next we turned off to Winnersh where, if we had turned right toward Wokingham, we would have gone by the bike shop (if it was still there) that was run by an Ex-Army Captain who used to run the cycling club in the college. However looking on line it does not appear to be there anymore. His name escapes me now but it was Mike something
We even got to fly through Wokingham as I often did.
That was a really nostalgic ride and I bet it was loaded by Karlsberg who runs/used to run the Tour of Britain League (by the way the real ToB starts tomorrow).
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