Saturday was the SCCC Lyme Park 2015 ride. The weather forecast for the weekend was terrible – really strong winds an heavy rain! Andy and I were concious that next week is the Stockport 10 (a 10 mile hilly run) and due to me being ill we haven’t done much training for it. As the club ride started at Rose Hill Station (Marple), we decided to run the Marple Parkrun first. As we arrived at Brabyns Park it was dry…
Saturday was the SCCC Big Stockport Ride in reverse. We met up in Green Lane, Stockport – next to a big puddle! The ride was one the was originally organised by Life Leisure and was called the Big Stockport Ride only we were going to do it in reverse. We set off up Green Lane Then across A6 and onto the cycle path opposite. We cycled past Stockport market and up Churchgate Then taking the foot bridge over St Mary’s…
The final Stockport Community Cycling Club ride before Christmas saw a hardy group of riders meet at Torkington Park in Hazel Grove for the Poynton Circular route. Compared to recent years this Christmas has so far proved relatively mild, and so it was on this occasion, though there was a bit of a stiff breeze to contend with. I was leading today’s ride, and Sarah was due to be the back-leaders. Sadly Sarah was still struggling with the cough that…
Having had an Open University tutorial cancelled at the last minute I took the opportunity to contact Andy S and suggest we go out for a cycle for a few hours. He has been talking about a hilly route he often rides and which he has aptly named his ‘Mountain Goat ride’. Today was as good as any to try it out. Andy S is known in Stockport Community Cycling Club circles for living ‘on the side of a mountain’…
Back in August Stockport Community Cycling Club assisted with the marshalling of the Big Stockport Cycle. The route proved a popular one, so why not the same ride – but in reverse? The idea for the Big Stockport Cycle in Reverse had begun … Beginning at the Pyramid near Stockport Town Centre the route began by cycling over the top of the centre via Heaton Norris. Next we made our way through the town centre, up past St Mary’s Parish…
