We started writing our rides up again! And what better time than on a day when we had 10 riders at the clock tower, 4 of which were new members, and 3 of whom were ladies! Hoorah - a third of the riders were ladies - it was great to see and both the new ladies said they would be back, so thats fantastic.

It was a bright but very windy morning, so looking at the wind forecast we decided to do one of Robs magical mystery tours. He has not always been renowned for his sense of direction, but today he came up with a great route! We wanted to go into the wind on the way out so that we would have it behind us as it picked up later in the morning so we went off to Twyford, then to Wokingham and Crowthorne. We had a bit of a break there to discuss next steps, and the new guys were doing well so we decide to carry on a bit further and did an extra little loop through Eversley and Yately before coming up Foresters Way and back into Crowthorne. Jon and Tom were way ahead up there - I managed to take Rob and Dan but couldn't catch them! So far the wind had been in our faces, but we had a real advantage going up the hill as it was now behind us. And it stayed that way all the way back. We stayed together until Binfield when the fast boys went off and Rob then turned round to go back to Bracknell (and back into the wind). The rest of us enjoyed the push back to Maidenhead. 48 miles today with average speed just over 16mph.