First group cycle

Was fun!

One degree temp, ice on the road. Oh that will be a good day for a ride out on some hills! ha ha ha. These guys do have a sense of humour!

we met at Rivington Barn for 10.30 and after coffee got changed in THE coldest building, an unheated toilet block.....brrrrr! Still got me into my kit quickly! lol 11am and off we went.

Tony, Glen, Gary, Zoe and me. And if Tony had been honest about that first hill........holy heck!

This is the view from Tony's saddle. He and Glen have returned from doing the El Camino challenge which is 850km with proper hills so this is just a little un for these boys, for us, this is BIG! lol
Still we got up it and along the way I got more confidant in my hill riding technique. You see, when i was 20 i was really, really fit and very, very light. So hills were fun things to be blasted up. When you are 47 hills are things to be sworn at. In about three languages and Tony gets called names too :)

But is was a super day out with some absoultely stunning countryside and fabulous company kept a smile on my face all day. If this is what cycling is about, I'm hooked.

So 5 went mental in Lancashire but we could only get a photo of four of the miscreants as Tony had the camera, and the breath to actually get the thing out a bag and use it!

left to right Zoe, Glen, me and Gary. yes I still have that awful pink waterproof but Zoe said it actually makes me more visible than any of the others so regrettably, it might have to stay.

By the way....how short am I?