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Sunday ride to Waterperry and Bledlow
Sunday, 29 April 2018 - 9:30am
Ride or Event Navigation
Chat at Waterperry where 2 old friends joined us for the route to lunch
Good food at The Lions of Bledlow
Isis (Rides for Women) will lead us to coffee via the climb to Elsfield. The Phoenix Trail takes us to a favourite pub in the Chilterns – the Lions of Bledlow. After a few hills and a very fast descent into Chinnor (15%+), we roll home to Oxford for the final 40k.
Ride report
Today – 7 degrees, feeling like 3 with a few spots of rain. Last Sunday – temperatures into the mid twenties under a flawless blue sky. No wonder we talk so much about the weather! The Phoenix Trail (Sustrans National Cycle Network 57) takes us quickly and conveniently into the Chilterns – it was actually one of our ex-members who helped open up this trail to cyclists and walkers in 2002 after the rail line closed in the 1990s.
GPX files
Ride leaders
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Full ride leader |
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Leader back from coffee |
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Leader back from coffee |
Ride venues and times
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Start |
Broad Street, Oxford | 9:30am |
Please arrive 5 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 |
Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry | 10:35am |
For about half an hour. | |
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Lunch |
Lions of Bledlow, Princes Risborough | 12:30pm |
For about an hour. | |
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Finish |
Oxford area | 4:00pm |
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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 |
90km |
20kph |
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Half day ride Ride to coffee and back again. |
42km |
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. | ||||