To reflect the longer daylight hours, the ride this evening, out to the Angelsey Arms at Halnaker, was one of the longest in the clubs programme. Unfortunately, the weather did not live up to expectations, being overcast and windy, with the threat of heavy rain forecast.  This probably accounted for why only 3 of us - Edwin, Jo , and myself - met up at the Fox, Felpham.

We set out round the back of Bognor, to Bersted, where we picked up the Chichester-Bognor cyclepath, which we followed to Colworth, before branching off towards Oving. Then it was via Woodhorn crossing and across Tangmere Airfield, crossing the A27 at Boxgrove, and straight up through the village to Halnaker, to complete an uneventful ride in just under the hour. The Chichester group - again only 3 - had, once again, beaten us to it.

For the return ride we dropped down through Boxgrove, crossed the A27 then followed it heading east along the parallel  cycle track, to East Hampnett, then round the loop to emerge at Aldingbourne and the Island at Wetergate. 

At this point Edwin and John, who rode back with us from the Chichester contingent, decided to beat the very threatening black clouds and sprint down the A29 to Bognor, leaving just Jo and myself to carry on back to Felpham via Barnham and Yapton. However we made it to Middleton before the rain started to come down, and by the time we got back to the Fox it had eased off again. It was to be a further hour before the rain really made itself known, so we were lucky to get away with it.

Mileage from and back to, the Fox, was 20.2.

Graham

Posted by RideLeader at 17:32 BST

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