It was a nice sunny day and I was going to walk up to Heptonstall with Lisa to have lunch in the cafe there. As soon as we set off, we realised that neither of us had enough money on us and there is no ATM in the village, so we went to one in Hebden Bridge centre first.
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A group of us wanted to get a long flattish ride in and Shaun (CycleChat: bromptonfb) had come up with the idea of riding to the seaside and back, taking in the flatlands of the Wyre and Fylde districts. I came up with a few suggestions and finally we came up with a route that ‘ticked all the right boxes’.
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Nowt much to report, but I’m including it just to log the 30 minutes of exercise.
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It was time for another CycleChat Sunday ride to the Country Kitchen cafe in Waddington, but this time we were going out on a much hillier and more scenic route to Spring Wood, Whalley. (Hebden Bridge, Slack, Widdop, Haggate, Brierfield, Fence, Black Hill, Sabden, Spring Wood.) From there we would follow the same route as the previous two editions of the ride.
Shaun (CycleChat: bromptonfb) had let us know that he couldn’t make it, so that left Steve (Steve H), Mike (SlowerThanASluggishSloth), Dave (potsy) and Gordon (OldnSlow). Ed (Svendo) would catch us up on the outward leg somewhere.
I met the lads in The Market Place car park, as usual. It was to be Gordon’s first ride with us and I could tell at a glance that his forum name was a relative one – he might be older than he used to be and slower than when he was young but he wasn’t that old and if his bike was anything to go by, he wasn’t going to be slow either. It was a Giant Once team bike, with Carbon Fibre (CF) everywhere – bars, cranks, seatpost, saddle – very nice!
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Lisa was off work and it was a sunny day so we decided to do a repeat of a walk we did in summer 2009 – Pennine Way reservoirs.
As before, we caught the 900 bus up to Blackstone Edge, then walked down towards the White House pub, and turned right onto the Pennine Way, down the side of Blackstone Edge reservoir. This time, we walked up the embankment and then along the wall above the reservoir. The views were better from up there, though it seems that our friendly dog walkers are sending their pooches up there to dump their crap. Nice!
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It was a fine sunny day but I had spent too much time dithering about on the computer so I didn’t have time to do a long bicycle ride. I decided to do a short tour of the local hills with a couple of steep climbs to give my leg muscles something to think about!
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It had started off nice today, but by the time Lisa and I set off to walk up to Heptonstall, it had clouded over and started to get drizzly.
Definitely ‘Hobbling’!
Power Walking, ramp ascending, woods traversing, road climbing …
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