LEADON VALE CYCLE CLUB RIDE 493 Sunday 21st April 2024.
Firstly I’m sorry I don’t know if anyone rode from the club but if you did I hope it was enjoyable and you all got back safely.
Today was a chance for something a little different, it has been talked about plenty but I think apart from tours the first club away day ride. The Blossom trail around the beautiful fields filled with blossom along the route. We met at a small car park on Pershore on what was a chilly start everyone in long trousers as we unloaded apart from me Steve and Chris but 9 of us turned up to try it out which was fantastic. We left Pershore up on to Rebbecca rd which warmed us up, and found some fantastic quiet lanes including a couple of Ford’s over swollen rivers, there was no riding through these so it was good that there was a good cycle/walk way over the streams, we split into 2 groups Steve, Owen, Peter and Adrian pushed on and we followed not far behind just making the group smaller on the road. Leaving the Pershore area we headed out to Flyford Flavel and a brief stop for a chat with a group of cyclists from Worcester we pushed on past the Boot Inn in the village and on towards the Lenches, Rous Lench and Ab Lench no idea what the meaning of these names were but they were beautiful villages and now on a familiar road into Evesham, as I recall we rode home from Kidderminster tour on this very route and before long for the first time we encountered the busy roads around Evesham but fortunately most of them heading in different directions to us and the road into town was surprisingly quiet, but we couldn’t find a suitable coffee stop so we decided to push on not realising the front party had stopped so we passed them on the now busy roads out of town, but soon it calmed down and we gradually climbed on quiet rolling roads to Broadway, passing through some very well to do properties and Broadway itself was very busy with tourists but we found the long awaited coffee stop with a chair in the sun. The forward party caught us up and now we were all together for the ride back. Leaving Broadway we seemed to drop down through Childswickham to the A46 but not as quickly as Owen Peter and Adrian who pushed on as Owen was riding home, it was on this road that for the first time we saw a field of fruit trees out in Blossom as I was beginning to think that I had misnamed this ride maybe should have been the blossom less ride but feeling vindicated we crossed the busy A46 and back on the lane through to Elmley Castle and the familiar roads through Great Comberton back to the carpark in Pershore.
Apart from the lack of Blossom, the ride was very enjoyable and yes we even had a coffeee stop.
Thanks to everyone who came and rode I think this will become a more regular occurrence especially in the Summer as it was nice to ride somewhere different.
We Passed Owen on the way home on his way through Longdon so was making good progress turning the ride into 60 miles.
Yellow leader.