What a difference the right time of year makes! I tried to do this route with Sam in February 2014 and it was a disaster! February 2014 Mudfest! So it was with some reservation that Sam agreed to attempt this route again. One of the big things to say is that it's really improved, not just because we've had a good dry spell but also because the Boughton Estate have graveled roads that were previously just mud-tracks. Sam rode really well on what can be quite challenging terrain. He made a rookie error of trying to put his feet down when being bounced off rocks and he paid for this by smashing his cadooberries into his handlebar stem. To Sam's credit he got back on and he learned from this by picking better line but also sorting wobbles out without taking his feet off the pedals.
On the road out of Rothwell
Cycle path at Glendon Industrial Estate
For the amusement of others
Heading into Weekly Woods
Lovely new gravel road on the Boughton Estate
Into Geddington
Heading up to the cross
Info
Looking back at the ford
Sam finds a Maserati
More info
Jelly beans and juice at the cross
Geddington Chase
Pedaling hard
Tree stop plus a geocache stop
Much more fun in the dry
Well earned hot chocolate
Shortly after this pic was taken Sam and I had to run for cover as the heavens opened. Lucky for us our ride was done for the day. He's asked when he will be able to join C&DCCC I said by about 14, the way he's going it may be a lot sooner!
Happy Pedaling
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