A night of many visitations, lots of COR and a good sized peloton.
My attempt to reach Spa was aborted after 2 visitations which meant putting my hand up for the team car followed by a change of bike. I set off to intercept by riding the route the wrong way. That is until I reached the bit of COR that I had managed to sneak in. When my wheels started to disappear into the mud I realised it was something for others to enjoy
There was still no sign of the Witham gang and it was past beer o'clock so I headed towards the Fox where I found Oaky lurking in the beer garden. He had caught the peloton at coggeshall hamlet only to have a visitation. The merciless peloton only stops for Huggy so he made his own way to the pub.
We were just tucking into a woodforde wherry when what looked like a model of an oil rig appeared on the road outside. This turned out to be Doggers Lane whose Xmas lights had been turned on early. He was in company with Andy Quaffer, the Danbury Dogger, Huggy, the Epiphanist, OD, Tomsk and Ian (the something commuter ?). The peloton had indeed stopped for a Huggy visitation and had been slowed down by the COR past the sewage farm.
We sampled various delights from Adnams with Ghost Ship taking the Quaffers' Choice award. Our new treasurer-elect was put under pressure, both with the previous incumbent assessing his performance and a large unruly group, but performed admirably. It can only be a matter of time until OD makes the appointment permanent.
All in all a great night with encouraging numbers for a damp autumnal evening.
OD will no doubt be on to explain how his 300k time trial on fully-laden tourers works...
