Randonee (french for excursion) Brevet (cycling excursion) - thanks Wikipedia !
The Family Welsh has been at it again. This time clocking up a grand total of 112 miles between the 4 of us around the lovely Ribble Valley and Forest of Bowland. A departure from Whalley Train Station carpark meant that the worst of the main roads and bad traffic was avoided before we serenely sauntered through Mitton and Bashall Eaves before stopping for lunch at the Cobbled Corner Cafe in Chipping.
Once satisfactorily fed we retraced our route briefly before going straight on through Chaigley and down towards the Hodder Bridge. The ascent from the bridge is only short, but viciously steep (or it feels it when dragging an inconsistently co-operative tagalong passenger) before we rode through to Waddington and then back through Clitheroe and back to Mitton via Edisford Bridge.
Caitlin did fantastically well and only needed a couple of very brief pushes up the severest of inclines, and I think it is fair to say she is at her best when the road tilts upwards. Helen continues to regain her cycling legs and seems to be forgetting her old descending fears, whilst Evan seemed very impressed with his new bar-ends which gave him an alternative hand position and which he decided looked like guns!
The whole happy episode was played out without the intervention of the rain-gods and without the usual mud and filth found on canal towpath rides. I am asked to point out that whilst this was a cleaner ride I am currently losing brownie-points by writing this whilst the hall looks like a cross between a bomb-site and cycle-laundry. I'd better go and help!!
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