Will was a little late arriving so we had a coffee before setting off at 11am. We rode to Ashburton and up Chuley Hill where we saw several riders of the Devon Dirt competition crossing the road to Ashburton. One of them didn’t seem to be appreciating the muddy tracks or the time constraints, and wondered why he had paid money for such misery - we encouraged him to take his time and enjoy the ride, for after all that is what leisure cycling is about.

We turned left at Parkfield Cross and followed the lane around to Well Farm where we could see the full extent of the new solar farm on the hill. Nobody seemed to be in much of a hurry today, so after a leisurely chat we meandered around to Landscove and settled down in the garden centre café for large slices of cake and not-so-large drinks and bowls of soup. We agreed to start longer rides from next Sunday if the weather was good.

We left at 1.30 and got home for around 2pm. Michael had his cousin staying so unfortunately there was no social after the ride today.