Speedy Kev Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 BROMSGROVE OLYMPIQUE RELIABILITY RIDE 8/3/15 Lee de Grey Martin Hickman Kevin Sargent What's got 200 legs, at least 25 beards, and three Saracens?? Bromsgrove Olympique reliability ride of course!! The route took us from Bromsgrove to Fish hill near Broadway, out via Hanbury, Cookhill, and Evesham, over Fish Hill and back through Honeybourne, Bidford, and Astwood Bank. Usually on these events the riders go off in small groups, so as not to disrupt traffic, not this this one, there must have been about a hundred riders set off on one mass start!! thats what you call critical mass!! After 4 miles of a sort of neutral zone, the powerhouses at the front leaned on their pedals going up through Hanbury woods, the peloton disintegrates, I grab onto the coattails of the front group, heart rate through the roof, little climbs turn in monster efforts, there's no recovery(for me.) I hang in until the base of Fish Hill where I either, decide to ride at my own pace, or get dropped, which ever way you want to look at it. I team up with a V-Sprint rider and we ascend Fish hill, then drop down through Aston Subedge, and enjoy the only bit of tail wind from Honeybourne to Broom. The rain starts to fall, and it's head windy, but the end is in sight!! Bromsgrove Scout hut never looked so good, Sweet tea and cake round off a tough but rewarding day out. Ascent 780m, AV HR 164 Max BPM 199 Saracens Chris Poole Lee de Grey Kevin Sargent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Great photo, great report Speedy! You, 50 Shades and Captain Slow look fab!!! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leigh Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Thanks neighbour for patronising the event . Glad you had fun !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Barker Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Great report and well done all three of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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