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Sunday ride to Aston and Burford
Sunday, 18 August 2019 - 9:30am
Ride or Event Navigation
Lunch must be pre-booked at this pub. See below map for menu - there is also a gluten free menu. When you have chosen, please email daviddaisygreen@gmail.com with your choice.
Deadline Friday 16 August 6pm
Up Cumnor hill to get the heart pumping and avoiding the dreaded Eynsham road. Gentle quiet roads as we head to coffee before continuing west as we go hunting pre-booked pies.
Ride report
The heavy downpour at the start was enough to make us regret leaving the overshoes at home and made us wonder whether we were suitably waterproofed. Most of our usual half-day riders took one look at the dark skies and decided to stay at home. But having pre-booked our lunches at The Royal Oak in Burford, 11 riders felt obliged to start. And we were rewarded by a blue sky that soon appeared almost miraculously, seemingly from nowhere, leaving a further 90k of sunshine with just a few drops here and there.
GPX files
Ride leaders
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Full ride leader |
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Leader back from coffee |
(No leader)
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Ride venues and times
| Venue | Time | Notes | ||
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Start |
Broad Street, Oxford | 9:30am |
Please arrive 10 minutes before the start time (especially if you are new, so that we can say hello and sign you up). | |
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Coffee |
Aston Pottery, Aston | 11:00am |
For about half an hour. | |
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Lunch |
The Royal Oak, Burford | 1:15pm |
For about an hour. | |
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Finish |
Oxford area | 4:30pm |
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| All of the times (apart from the start time) are approximate only, as weather or punctures may affect them. | ||||
Ride options and attendance
| Ride option | Distance | Pace | Attendees | |
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Full ride |
95km |
20kph |
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Half day ride Ride to coffee and back again. |
62km |
20kph |
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| The pace listed above is the average pace we do, so in general when cycling along the flat we will go a bit faster than the average pace. Please be aware of this if you are wondering whether you will be able to keep up on the ride. | ||||