Almost a year ago I completed the Great Kent Cycle.  I was reading my ride review to remind myself how things went last year.  Why you may ask?  Because on the spur of the moment I did it again today!  Other commitments I had disappeared so I had no excuse but to go to the ride.  As my lack of posts has indicated this year I have done very few long rides so I wasn’t sure how things would go.
As we arrived in Ashford it was spitting with rain, but …

Once again I set off at an insanely early time, 5:15am for my Saturday cycle.  I planned to go 70 miles to Farnham Surrey.  This would be a particularly hilly route but would be good experience and hopefully worse than any days on the actual cycle to Paris.
Even though I had carefully planned my route and uploaded it onto my GPS I instantly started up the wrong street, I knew I was headed to Tunbridge wells, just forgot which route I had mapped.  It was still dark, but fortunately I …

It’s been a busy week.  Sorry I have neglected my blog slightly recently.  I have finally got broadband installed at home so I hope it will be easier to keep you up-to-date now.
On Sunday I set off from home with one goal in mind!  To surpass 1000 miles on my speedometer.  I have done a little more actual miles as there were times when it wasn’t plugged in or I forgot it.  But I cycled out the house with 30 miles to do.  I didn’t really know where I was …

Following my ride to Dover last week, I rode to Canterbury this weekend.
As with last time I got up at 4:30am had a bowl of porridge and a banana first.  While I was having breakfast I was watching the Olympics on BBC one which had the men’s road race.  It was interesting watching them in the first half as if they were out for a Sunday ride while 2 breakaway riders were powering ahead but would be caught by the group later.  One thing that made me chuckle was the …

Saturday I cycled the 57 miles, from Matfield to Dover.  Had an early start, 5:35am!  But it was great as the roads were empty.  We took the main roads through Brenchley, Horsemonden, Goudhurst, Biddenden and Tenterden.  The advantages of leaving so early were clear as in all this time only about 10 cars went past us.
From Tenterden, we headed to Appledore and Romney.  The start of the ride was undulating but at the 20 mile mark (a little before Appledore) we dropped onto the Marshes and from there it remained …