Weekly cycle ride
May. 16th, 2020 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anefI have persuaded M to join me for a couple of these. It's not really fair as he has a big heavy town bike and I have a lightweight streamlined road bike, and he is also asthmatic though not on the serious end of the scale. Nevertheless we got out today.
We took the DNA cycle path to Shelford, and then cycled through neigbouring Stapleford towards the Gog Magogs, a long slow upward rise through the fields. The Gogs are our highest local point, rising to (ahem) about 75m above sea level. To get that high, however, we would have had to take a footpath up to the Tumulus on Magog Down, or Wandlebury Ring. Looking at the OS map, we may have reached 50m before descending toward the Babraham Road.
We stopped at the conveniently sited Gog Farm Shop, and after minimal queuing picked up such delights as home-made pork and apple pies, Tunworth cheese and a whole free range chicken, with giblets(!), before taking the Babraham Road home. A round trip of about 8 miles, with slightly over an hour's actual cycling.
We took the DNA cycle path to Shelford, and then cycled through neigbouring Stapleford towards the Gog Magogs, a long slow upward rise through the fields. The Gogs are our highest local point, rising to (ahem) about 75m above sea level. To get that high, however, we would have had to take a footpath up to the Tumulus on Magog Down, or Wandlebury Ring. Looking at the OS map, we may have reached 50m before descending toward the Babraham Road.
We stopped at the conveniently sited Gog Farm Shop, and after minimal queuing picked up such delights as home-made pork and apple pies, Tunworth cheese and a whole free range chicken, with giblets(!), before taking the Babraham Road home. A round trip of about 8 miles, with slightly over an hour's actual cycling.
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Date: 2020-05-17 11:12 am (UTC)