What a weekend
Friday: Mr Bond & I rock up at Bryncrach camp site in Hundred House good and early, lovely site with superb facilities and showers to die for. After pitching up we took
a reconnaissance ride into Llandrindod via a very technical but fun (when taken downhill) byway. Checked out the start and finish locations for the weekend and then found and got slightly delayed in
Arvon Ales, an excellent micro pub. Back to the camp site by a more sensible but still
very unflat road route. A good feed at the Hundred House Inn.
Saturday: Into Llandrindod by
another ++hilly route for second breakfast at Greggs. Then to the bandstand for the start of
the 100a which was just sublime. I particularly enjoyed the way so many routes converged in four dimensions through the Elan Valley, it was really enjoyable being among so many riders on the road. We threw in a short bit of extra gravel before Bwlch-Y-Sarnu (recommended!) and used some cycle tracks (not so recommended) to avoid having to go through Llandrindod town centre on the way back.
Sunday: Feeling better than expected we got to Llandrindod for second breakfast on the garage forecourt just up from the Highland Moors. At 09:00 we rolled off with a good number on the
100b. More sublime scenery all day (nice photos andyoxon). Extra gravel at the Devils Staircase bypass, thanks Iddu and Wilkyboy, and Cors Caron before the heat drove us into the Teifi Inn at Ffair Rhos for unscheduled extra liquid. The Visitors centre at the Elan valley closed while we locked up the bikes outside, should have paid more attention
We really did not fancy the A470 finish one bit so at Llanwrthwl we peeled off right to reverse the outbound leg of Saturdays 100a, extra gravel and much nicer. Free beer and pig at arrivée
May find a closer camp site next year - Hundred House to Llandrindod & back three times added almost 2000mtrs to our weekend. The showers were
almost worth it.
Thank you to all the organisers, route planners & checkers, card stampers and everyone who made this a superb weekend. Oh and the weather gods too.