A big turn-out on another warm, sunny day. We split into two groups from the start with Trev's group going to East Leake, leaving 19 in my group to Little Jack's.
With a few newbies we had quite a steady ride without any big hills - plenty hard enough for me as well!
Good to meet up again with Jon Kettell and his girlfriend Gill on her first proper club run. Phimo's workmate Marcin was also on his first club run and has just joined the Club.
I think we had 12 in our group, but Llew and Tom turned back early and we picked up Robin from Mapperley along the way. We went out via Hickling, Old Dalby, Willoughby, Wysall and Costock to the Love and Piste café at East Leake. The café is quite small with 2 benches outside and seating for around 15 inside, but we all got served reasonably quickly and spent a good half hour or more soaking up the sun.
Back via Wysall, Widmerpool and Kinoulton, the group split in 2 here as Katy was struggling a bit with the pace, so Mary and a few others rode with her whilst 4 of us carried on. But I think everyone got back OK.
It was quite hot towards the end. I ended up with just under 50 miles at 15.2 average.
We are getting so many riders that we'll soon need 3 groups by the looks of it.