Sunday 28 August 2022 - Bank Holiday Special Further Faster Elevenses

Our second short notice ride of the weekend had three participants.  We did go further and faster than the Saturday ride, but it was still a relatively easy pace suited to a Sunday morning. 

We had plenty of time to meander over to our intended refreshment stop, so we rolled along the Alban Way and diverted into the Cycle Hub to watch some pump track action and have a little ride around the gravel track.

Then we headed up on NCN6 and up Ragged Hall Lane and looped over through Serge Hill.  Bedmond Lane is still in very good condition having been resurfaced in April 2021, the road closure sign is still up!

Back to Potters Crouch and through Apps Pond, over the A4147 and now we were heading along Beechtree Lane to Elevenses at Westwick Hall Farm.  This is a pop-up coffee bar in the corner of a field, with coffee and cake served from a horsebox and ice-cream from a bike-towed trailer.  All patrons have to arrive on foot or by cycle, there is no motor access.  It is open most Sundays through the spring, summer and autumn, 10am - 4pm.  Check for current information on their Instagram or Facebook accounts.

From here it was easy navigation, through Gorhambury, slowing down past the walkers (there was a special walk today) and admiring the GPR teams at work in the field opposite the Roman Theatre.  You can find out more about what the Ground Penetrating Radar has revealed: Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Landscape of Hertfordshire | An adventure in Hertfordshire archaeology. (wordpress.com)

Depending on where you started your bike computer from, we covered around 15 miles, and it was quite a hilly ride.  We went our separate ways from St Michaels.