Rhayader 26th of March, Great ride in mid wales Options

[littlegirlbunny]

I am down for Degla with Nik on Saturday which would probably be the sensible option considering I'm on painkillers after Bringewood however if Rod can make it Saturday I wouldnt like to let all his hard work sorting out a golden pass go to waste .

[Rod]

righty... just had the OK from the loerly Sian, so it would appear that I'm in.

Time and meeting point still required though.

EDIT

Found it -

Meet at 10am in the leisure centre carkpark £3 a day (Ithink) start at 10:30 sharp.

Rhayader Leisure Centre
North Street
Rhayader
Powys
LD6 5BU


Doug, you will have to navigate, you know what I'm like at directions.
Where is Nik coming from and does he want a lift to come too?

Rod

[Rod]

Is that 5 upto this point?

[Doug]

Where is Nik coming from and does he want a lift to come too?

Rod

There's a few of them going to Degla plus Nik has a phobia of long mountain climbs. I will double check with him tonight if he wants to come but I'm pretty sure he won't.

[Rod]

eh up... I'm sure someone during this post made the comment which included the word "easy"
Are you saying this is not an "easy" ride after all?

Doug, YHM

[littlegirlbunny]

eh up... I'm sure someone during this post made the comment which included the word "easy"
Are you saying this is not an "easy" ride after all?

Doug, YHM

You'll be alreet Rod - it's nowhere near as hard technically or in climbing as that ride we did in the pouring rain with Doug!

[Gareth]

Are you saying this is not an "easy" ride after all?

It's all relative, it's an easy ride for me, we often go back up the huge final descent to add to it but you're almost back at the town where we park at that point so could quit then. I would say it's a 'Medium'.

[Doug]

Much as I love this ride, after a bit of PM banter between Rod and myself I've reluctantly decided that I am not really ready for this ride after Bringewood even with tomorrow off work. I was intending to make the route much easier by takeing the road route round to the bottom of the gully then push up for a play whilst you guys did the loop again. I was then going to ride up to the last dam and miss out the Roman Camp crossing by riding around the other side of the reservoir to get to the start of the final track. TBH it's a long way for a compromised ride. I'll be doing a social paced Degla with Nik and a few others but will definitely be coming back to this classic ride later in the year.

[littlegirlbunny]

Much as I love this ride, after a bit of PM banter between Rod and myself I've reluctantly decided that I am not really ready for this ride after Bringewood even with tomorrow off work. I was intending to make the route much easier by takeing the road route round to the bottom of the gully then push up for a play whilst you guys did the loop again. I was then going to ride up to the last dam and miss out the Roman Camp crossing by riding around the other side of the reservoir to get to the start of the final track. TBH it's a long way for a compromised ride. I'll be doing a social paced Degla with Nik and a few others but will definitely be coming back to this classic ride later in the year.

[Gareth]

Sorry to hear you won't make it Doug, look forward to catching up with you not too much further into Spring.

[Rod]

Ah bugger it... gonna bomb out along with the Dougster. Save it for a lovely warm (20deg + ) sunny day latter in the year.
I have issued a summons to myself that this year I will do a few forum rides and indeed get out and about more.

Appologies for letting you down but it's going to be "next time" for me.

Thanks all.


R d