Riderrachy

Napoli half marathon, along the front and a little into the city. Beautiful event!!

Starting in the car park by the cadence Cycling café we took the south Downs way climbing up for around 2 km before turning left off down a bridleway down a really fun descent. It’s so nice to run with the tracks a little dryer, we then weaved our way around the woods before climbing back up. This is a run of two crimes and roughly 2 descent with some really pretty views.

Starting at Alice Holt forest, we took part of the Shipwrights way before headed through Bentley train station and onto beautiful quiet floaty lanes for around 10km. We then skirted onto a selection of bridleways after Lasham airfield. The first bridleway here was beautiful, lush woods with tall pine trees - generally really well rolling. We stopped at around 40km at the South Downs roastery cafe for a lovely coffee and cafe before tackling the last 10km. If the conditions have been really wet, it might be better to stick to the road for the last 10km.

Starting from the Devils Punchbowl in Hindhead, we descended down the quieter side of the National Trust area using a bridleway which gets rockier towards the bottom. From here we headed down towards Hankley Common, up the short climb to reach the view point. Across Hankley ridge with views either side, we descended by the golf course before taking some quiet lanes around Frensham and into the back of Alice Holt forest. The tracks around Alice Holt are hard compact and great to ride all year round. Once out of the forest, super quiet lanes took us in the direction of Churt, before a little coffee stop at The Hyde Orchard farm shop and cafe - tucked away at the back of the Punchbowl and Beacon Hill area.

A lap down to the ponds at the bottom of Grayshott village, these past are well away from the traffic in the woods and super super quiet

A point to point run along the coastal path to Findhorn bay. Mostly Singletrack, weaving in and out of the forest with views of the beautiful coast along the way.

A little adventure starting from little Garve, which is almost like the gateway to the Western Highlands from Inverness. We parked up at the small car park by the river, followed the path up stream before crossing over and starting the climb. The climb is quite consistent along a fire track, we then hit the snow line around 400 m. It then got heavier and windy as we progressed. The windchill was quite strong up high so we didn’t hang around for long. We then descended taking our time on the icy tracks before dropping below the snow line. It is a wonderful loop giving a sense of adventure not too far from the bigger mountains and the city.

A lap around the Staunton Woods fireroads with a few sections of Singletrack, it was a wet wet wet, wet, wet wet. However, the ground held up really well so it was still pretty fast rolling.

Afternoon ride with no real plan in mind. Headed out in the direction of Longmoor and just followed our noses. Taking a turn where wanted and just enjoyed the spin around the military ranges - the least boggy place to ride right now!!

A hilly half marathon in Storm Chandra on Dartmoor!! Crazy conditions, paths which turned to rivers, trees down in many places. But despite the conditions, the run was amazing, the kind which batters you a little and makes you feel alive. The route is good apart from the section by the river after the Drogo descent, the path was closed by forestry meaning we had to find an alternative way up to the higher forest tracks around 12km. Hilly and hard but totally rewarding.