Club ride to Brighton this Sunday, July 24

Club ride to Brighton is this Sunday and the weather is looking set for a hot one, so bring swim suits and goggles in case the urge takes you to plunge in to the English Channel.

There will be two or three groups riding down, depending on the numbers who want to come. The slow group (suitable for beginners if you are ok to ride 50 miles with quite a few hills at a steady pace) will leave the Lido at 8:30am sharp, led by moi. Intermediate group will leave at 9am and fast group at 9:30am. The idea is that we all get down to the sea front at Brighton at 1-1:30pm and have fish & chips on the beach near the main pier. We may all run in to each other on Ditchling Beacon like last year.

Please let us know if you are coming and which group you plan to ride with. If you feel up to leading the intermediate or fast group, that would be great. I will post the Garmin route for you to upload.

The route down will be super-rural and mostly traffic free. I will probably ride back to London after lunch if anyone wants to boost their mileage for the day, using the direct route via Turners Hill, Redhill and Croydon. Otherwise there are regular trains back to London from Brighton, or Haywards Heath if you want to do the first part of the ride back.

Please assemble at the lido for your group ten minutes ahead of the posted leave time so that we get away on time.

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Permalink Reply by Julian G on July 18, 2016 at 16:54

Am in! Happy to be part of the Intermediate group.
Thanks for organising this, Charles!

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Permalink Reply by Laura A on July 18, 2016 at 21:20

I'm in for the intermediate group

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Permalink Reply by Edward Lockhart on July 18, 2016 at 21:57

I'll aim to join the intermediate group too.

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Permalink Reply by Harry Vaneris on July 18, 2016 at 22:12

I'm gutted, got to go to Leeds for a birthday party.

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Permalink Reply by Hannah on July 18, 2016 at 23:38

Hi Charles, thanks for organising!!I'd be happy joining the intermediate/fast group depending on speeds...

If I can borrow my housemate's Garmin and learn how to use it before Sunday I would give leading a go with a second person in the group too for support! :)