HARPENDEN AND ST ALBANS BLAZING BLUES BELATED BURNS CELEBRATION

This ride will be a great start for the New Year! Particularly aimed at those of you who have been riding with us throughout 2015 and want to take your riding up a notch. It has a bit more distance and a few hills to conquer, so it falls into the Blazing Blues rather than the Graceful Greens category. That said, if you are happy to have a go at the hills then please do come along - we will go at the pace of the slowest rider and re-group at the tops of the hills. It definitely isn't Roaring Reds and all bike types are welcome. We'll start at Breathing Space at Harpenden - 9.15 am so we have time to check bikes and do the safety briefing allowing us to set off promptly at 9.30 am. The route will take us out of Harpenden (the only busy road) and then into the countryside - travelling through Peters Green and Kimpton then on to Ayot St. Lawrence. We'll have a well deserved stop at the lovely Brocket Arms before heading back to Harpenden. If you have a choice of bikes then come on your road rather than your mountain bike, but if you only have a mountain bike then that's absolutely fine - the roadies will be jealous of you at the muddy bits! We'll shorten the route a little of the weather is dreadful so that we don't feel under pressure in bad conditions. Wear something Scottish - a belated Burns celebration!