Well that was odd. My diary says 9am, the paperwork says 9am, the AUK Web site says 9am, so why did I get it into my head that it started at 10am? Happily, when I did finally show up, Jocelyn and team were still just locking up the hall, so I set off 50 minutes after everyone else.
The good thing about that was that I got the best of the day. The sun had burnt the mist off the lowlands, and it wasn't until the top of Kingston Grove that visibility became an issue for a short stretch. On the way back, of course, it was blue skies all the way.
Not so good was that riders were coming back the other way from well before Christmas Common, which was a bit depressing...
The new garden centre control was good.