Monday, May 21, 2012

It was a ride of 2 halves……

An intrepid 4 headed off to Milwich with plans to visit our friendly publican, Jackie wanted more chips! Taking our traditional approach and reversing last week’s pre lunch loop we arrived at a tranquil Green Man and ordered bacon and mushroom sandwiches for 4.
 
After lunch we headed out to Stone, a quick stretch of the A51 and into Hixon, who knew Hixon had so many hills?!  Undeterred we headed out to Abbots Bromley, paused at the Spectacled Cow to top up on refreshment and cycled on in search of more hills.  At Blithbury we turned for home and headed into Colton, through Weston, the Haywards and finally Tixall.  A short pause at Baswich Crem to regroup and the team of 4 disbanded each to climb another hill on route to respective homes, each rider covering 60+ miles.
 
It was a wonderful day, good weather, good food, good route and good company.