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Longest Ride of The Year! So Far.........

Longest ride of the year so far for both myself and James. Have been restricted to training indoors so far with the poor weather, although today was still bitterly cold. 

Wrapped up warm with lots of layers and headed out of Hartlepool just after 8.30am, off through Wolviston and met James at Wynyard Cricket Club. The cold weather soon started to take hold of us both and we quickly lost the feeling in both hands and toes. Headed out through Yarm and came accross a large group of cyclists stopping for Bacon sandwiches. This did sound tempting but we kept going. Slow steady climb out the back of Yarm and a right turn at the roundabout towards Worsall. We made quick work of this section and soon had a decision to make a left turn to Northallerton or a right turn to start heading home via Darlington. We were both suffering with the freezing temperature (especially James with his bare legs on display, must prepare better next week!) so opted for the right turn. Down through Croft over the Tees and then into Darlo. 

We head for the town centre and took a well earned break and a cuppa in Yates. 

Two pots of tea later we set off again at a very steady pace out of Darlo and onto Sadberge. It took some getting going agian but we soon picked up the pace and were heading round the back of Stockton towards Carlton in no time. Another quick two minutes were had just outside of carlton to capture some pictures, before getting our heads down for the final stretch. 

Next was the short sharp climb up the back of Wynyard (it always amazes me how difficult this stretch feels, I much prefer flying down it) before once again leaving James to head our separate ways. Another 7-8 miles for me from here through Wolviston and onto the long boring stretch of the A689 back into Hartlepool.

Great ride out although very cold, very very cold but glad we got out.

Data from todays ride:
Route: Hartlepool - Wynyard - Yarm - Croft-on-Tees - Darlington - Hartlepool
Activity: Cycle
Shortened Google Maps URL: http://j.mp/hGXij1
Started: 29 Jan 2011 08:34:03
Ride Time: 3:51:04
Stopped Time: 42:19
Distance: 60.21 miles
Average: 15.63 miles/h
Fastest Speed: 29.23 miles/h
Climb: 1046 feet

cycle after work!!

Quick cycle after work today, around 25mile in an hour n a half!! Middlesbrough to Stokesley to Hutton Rudby to Yarm through Stockton and home!! Feels good to finally get out after winter and blow off some steam!! Roll on tomorrow when we do our 60miles.

Middlesbrough to Richmond via Wynyard, check our blog tomorrow night for photos and our progress!!

james

Mark Beaumont

@MrMarkBeaumontMark Beaumont

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A re-tweet off @MrMarkBeaumont on twitter has published our cause to over 6,000 of his followers. Thanks Mark great to have your support. 

Welcome to our Blog

The blog is now operational, please feel free to invite your friends and keep an eye on the blog. We will keep you up to date with all the goings on with our fundraising efforts and let you know how the training is going each week.

Training

Training has now commenced for our one day c2c challenge!! :) Let the sweat & fun begin! We will be updating this regularly to keep everyone up to date with our progress and also some great pics for you to make sure we are working hard enough!!

speak soon

James