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King Alfred's Way 2022

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  Three members of the club Calum Cheshire, Rich Butler , Will Hornby made a plan to ride the King Alfred's Way in September 2022 from Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th. If you have not already heard of the King Alfred's Way it is a 350km route devised by Cycling UK in the South of England along quiet roads and bridleways. For the full details of the route and lots of helpful advice which we used ourselves check out https://www.cyclinguk.org/king-alfreds-way Our plan for the route was to do it in 3 days so we booked overnight accommodation for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In the end we had to cancel our accommodation for Friday night because of work commitments and instead travelled up to Wiltshire early on Friday morning. Friday - Salisbury to Reading We started from the Beehive Park and Ride on the edge of Salisbury  https://goo.gl/maps/soG46K6FX9FgmtzDA   which was decided while we were driving up to Wiltshire and looking for somewhere to get some breakfast and to park. The pa...
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Tro Bro Leon 2022 12/05/22 - 16/05/22

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Three members of the club Calum Cheshsire, Adrian Turner, Will Hornby along with John Potts from Somerset were very keen to experience the long established annual cycle race in Brittany. A plan for the event was quickly assembled with Adrian Turner volunteering to drive and book the ferry while Will Hornby booked a Gite for the weekend at Guissiney only a short 12 km ride from the start/finish of the race and the sportive in Lannilis. We would all ride the sportive the day before the Elite race which is part of the French Road Cycling Cup. Thursday  We left Plymouth on the 11pm ferry after stopping at the Barbican for fish and chips on Thursday evening. Friday  The ferry docked at 8 am and after breakfast in Roscoff we had only a short 40 km drive to our accommodation in Guisseny. The Gite we had rented for the weekend was in a great location only a couple of hundred metres from the beach and equipped with all the facilities required including a handy garage for storing the bi...
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