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Ride report: Sunday 10 June - Flying | Rides | Muddymoles: Mountain wanderlust (MTB) in the Surrey Hills and Mole Valley Menu Muddymoles Muddymoles: Mountain wanderlust (MTB) in the Surrey Hills and Mole Valley Cycling News, Reviews, Chat and Ride reports Important! The functionality on this website requires Javascript but it appears that either your browser does not support Javascript or you have Javascript disabled. This will stupefy your wits of this website and in some cases may prevent key features from working correctly. Ride report: Sunday 10 June – Flying Posted by Matt, June 11, 2018 There are 5 comments so far Regular readers will know that if I say I’m flying, it has nothing to do with jumps… Those same readers will moreover know it’s unusual for me to be flying at all, as I am mostly ‘riding when to fitness’. Just as there can never be too many bikes in one’s quiver, so one can never unquestionably requirement outright fitness. Fitness is a journey, not a destination! In my case, the journey is a long one and not one I’m likely to end soon (I hope). As the years pass, recovery seems to take longer and frankly, I’m not getting any faster. So it was quite a welter to get out Sunday afternoon for a quick wham among familiar Surrey Hills surroundings and to find I was spinning quite nicely. I won’t say I was ‘on it’, just that riding solo on a nice velocipede tends to requite a bit of spring in your heels. I had been hoping to get out in the morning – it’s been a long time since I’ve managed to get out with the regular ride group – but that was kyboshed when I needed to take my eldest son to Guildford for new running shoes. After domestic duties we dispatched though, I felt I couldn’t let the afternoon go to waste. It was a pleasant 18-20° with a gentle walkover and I set off fairly steadily up toward Polesden Lacey. The only mud I found on the whole route was in the usual place on the Admiral’s Track and I duly minced through it. Once up to Polesden though I headed lanugo Hogden Lane and up Pamplona and as overly when I’m on my own and faced with a climb, my effort levels went up a notch. By the time I’d reached Ranmore, I was hot but spinning nicely. Wire in the Blood was uncharacteristically grippy due to stuff spankingly dry, and the riding just got largest from there. A fast wham withal Collarbone, then a nice flowy journey round the Abba Zabba complex, straight lanugo Blind Terror, over the road into Rooty Woods and an untroubled meander lanugo to the road soon had me at the Abinger Roughs. Here I turned when toward Westcott, past Deerleap Wood. By now I was feeling unconfined and ticking over nicely, the Jeffsy munching up the miles quite happily. Apart from swallowing the odd fly myself, (yuck!) I had no trouble maintaining my pace up High Med and managed to alimony tapping out a rhythm all the way up to Ranmore. Turning toward the church, I headed toward Denbies and hooned the YT lanugo Red, White and Rose. It’s a measure of how long it’s been that the second section archway has been ‘re-modelled’ and the branches laid lanugo to woodcut the path are now sufferer and brown, but it was still new to me. By the time I reached the marrow of Denbies I was starting to finger a little tired but still felt good. So I climbed up Crabtree Lane and picked up the River Run into Norbury Park, then the Jeffsy cruises this sort of trail very well. The final three miles or so saw me dropping my pace a little but by the time I got home I was feeling not only very hot and very tired but pleased that I’d unquestionably got a ride in on a Sunday for a change. 18 miles at an stereotype of 11.3mph. If you have a bike, and you have the time, go for a ride. The trails are in perfect condition out there! Filed under Rides in June 2018 About the tragedian Matt is one of the founding Molefathers of the Muddymoles, and is the designer and main zookeeper of the website. Having ridden a 2007 Orange Five for many years he's recently switched to a YT Industries Jeffsy, slantingly a 2016 Marin Pine Mountain. Lurking in the when of the stable, waiting for it's next installment is a Kona Big Unit 29er hardtail, while an early On-One Inbred still whispers sweet things to him. You can plane find him on road bikes - a Specialized Secteur and a Trek District 1 so far. If you've overly wondered how we got into mountain wanderlust and how the MuddyMoles started, well wonder no more. There are 5 comments on ‘Ride report: Sunday 10 June – Flying’ We love to get comments from our readers - if you've spent a few moments to comment, thank-you. If you haven't had a endangerment yet, jump to our comments form if you have something to say. Gordo says: It’s unconfined to see you’re out and loving your riding. I’m fascinated how long technical velocipede improvements will protract to offset our physiological declines! Perhaps the spreadsheet of doom will need to winnow incremental hammerings! Add a new comment, or reply to this scuttlebutt Posted on June 12, 2018 at 7:11 am Matt says: Ah, I see you’ve correctly identified I’m relying on tech to help me alimony up Gordo! At some point that spreadsheet will need a step transpiration though I don’t think I need an e-Bike just yet… Add a new comment, or reply to this scuttlebutt Posted on June 12, 2018 at 8:39 pm Gordo says: I think the unshortened golf sector has survived on this understructure for decades! Add a new comment, or reply to this scuttlebutt Posted on June 12, 2018 at 9:08 pm SSJ says: The trails were unconfined on Saturday and the trails were unconfined on Sunday. I just hope the forecast of a long warm summer is right – maybe we’ll plane get the whole length of the Admirals track zestless out. Hopefully see you out Moleing surpassing too long Matt. Add a new comment, or reply to this scuttlebutt Posted on June 12, 2018 at 9:18 am Matt says: I’ve been trying to get out with you guys for weeks John.Requiteme a shout when you are virtually as I might be worldly-wise to squeeze an evening in somewhere as well. Add a new comment, or reply to this scuttlebutt Posted on June 12, 2018 at 8:41 pm Leave a comment… Cancel reply Have your say – we'd love to hear what you think.If you have something to add, just well-constructed this scuttlebutt form (we will not publish your email address).*Required information.CommentName * Email * Website This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your scuttlebutt data is processed. Search for:Go! Search for: Muddymoles Forum Support the Muddymoles About the Muddymoles Contact us Archives Most recent Ride report: Saturday 22 Sept – Five dogs, a yellow and a lot of rain in France Well, that’s a first for me! 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