The Afterburner
Posted on Sunday 27 December 2009 by Bob Davis
Jon McColl organised a wind-down *** for post Christmas, and we met at Highbury corner for a ride out into Essex aided by a following wind. Roger Cline did the first 30km before his cold got the better of him, leaving Dawn, me and Jon to be pushed across the flat and relatively car-free lanes to lunch at Green Tye.
Dawn had been suffering on the way out, so decided to make her own way straight back to Hertford. Jon and I struck out for a brisker, longer route. As Essex turns in to Hertfordshire the windswept flat topography gets rolly and more sheltered from the wind, with strips of snow lining fields where the sun had not made it through the hedges.
Back via Dane End and Watton-at-Stone, we had done a good 100km from Highbury Corner by the time we de-trained at Finsbury Park. Not bad for a windy, cold post-Christmas ride.