Jon's Cycling & Sailing Blog
Mostly Cycles Routes Around West Bergholt & Sailing Around Brightlingsea.

(Click on any routemap to see it full size including profile plot in a new window. Each is around 200-400k)

November 2008

Month Mileage - 250.5 miles
Total Annual Mileage - 3,034 miles
Misc (to Station, Gym etc.) Mileage - 18.5 miles

30th November - Bures, Leavenheath & Nayland

19.5 miles - 733ft Ascent. Early morning ride. Damp, grey and cold - Mmmm... lovely! [SS,JS]

24th, 25th & 27th November - Wormingford

10.5 miles - 'Lunchtime loop's (slightly lengthened to 11.4 miles on 25th to drop off a card en route) [JS]

23rd November - Wormingford

10.5 miles - Early morning loop - very, very cold (it started snowing just as we got back into the village!)
A welcome return from Heiko over for the weekend. [SS,HW,JS]

20th November - Fordham

10 miles - Route out west to go into very strong wind for first half - but marvellous return trip! [JS]

18th November - Gt Horkesley via Station & Tog Lane

8.8 miles - Fordham Road in 'Lunchtime loop' closed for resurfacing so alternative ride [JS]

16th November - Burnt Dick Hill, Nayland & Wormingford

15.7 miles - 559ft Ascent. Early morning ride. Supposedly mild, but bloomin' damp and horrible so a
shorter ride than originally planned before getting back in o the warm! [SS,JS]

15th November - Sudbury Old Railway Line

5.5 miles - 171ft Ascent (same route as 09/04/07). Vey pleasant family ride [HSL,RAS,SPS,JS]

14th & 13th November - Wormingford

10.5 miles - 'Lunchtime loop's [JS]

12th November - Adastral Park

19.5 miles. Ride in from Ipswich Station for meetings. Breezy, but luckily dry. [JS]

9th November - Abberton Reservoir & Layer

20.4 miles - 903ft Ascent (same route as 21/09/08). Early morning ride. Clear morning but very windy and cool
- rather harder work than it should have been!! [SS,JS]

8th November - Saxmundham

18.4 miles - 659ft Ascent. Ride out from Helen's parents' house. Damp and very windy with filthy roads,
but nice to be seeing some different ('though familiar!) roads for a change. [JS]

3rd & 7th November - Wormingford

10.5 miles - 'Lunchtime loop' grey, drizzly and unpleasant on 3rd - lovely on 7th!! [JS]

2nd November - Pebmarsh

23.1 miles - 858ft Ascent (same route as 14th June) Morning ride.
Drizzly to start off with and the roads were really wet from rain the previous night. [SS,JC,JS]

1st November - Tangham

5.7 miles - 155ft Ascent. Offroad ride with the boys.The track was a bit messed up in places by an Enduro motorbike event
last weekend :-( Timed to perfection - the rain set in just after we'd finished! [RAS,SPS,JS]

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Last updated - 6 December, 2008