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Sunday Club Run on 16 January - from Peter Leonard our watersport correspondent.

Well the phone went at 8 am and it was Andy Grice saying it was raining here (Newton, Preston) but David Abram (he must have been kidding) had told him it was not raining on Southport were we still going for a ride?  Like an idiot I said yes thinking that as Andy and I had entered the Tour of Flanders Sportive in April I needed the miles. At nine Andy and I road off in torrential rain towards Southport. Nobody would be mad enough to ride from Southport in  this???  Wrong. At Longton appeared Ian Robinson, Len Collins, John Findley, David Abram and Spencer Coltman.

At a brisk pace, instigated by Spence, we headed towards Scorton. Len, Ian and yours truly had enough of the rain by the time we reached Scorton and we dived into the cafe. Spence had pushed on towards Dunsop Bridge and Dave, Andy and John stood outside the Priory trying to make  their minds up, eventually going to Dunsop Bridge but never seeing Spence again- did he get washed away? The Scorton trio found a couple of the Wallis Cycles team to follow from Scorton to Preston whilst the Dunsop Bridge trio returned home via Little Bowland. Spence – did you get home?????  One thing is certain – we all got very very very wet.

Posted 17/01/2011

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