Sunday 8 October. Selborne Ride.

Today there was a choice of a long ride from Chichester to Selborne or a short car/train assisted ride to Selborne from Petersfield.

Weather was generally good with long sunny spells and temperatures up to 17C.

4 of us met at the Cross, myself (Edwin) Richard Boulton and Phil and Mary. By coincidence all of us had just returned from Greece. Honed by 2 weeks of Greek hills we made good progress and I had to add on some extra loops on byroads to avoid reaching Petersfield too early.

At Petersfield Tesco we met Gill, Adrian, Colin and Christine. We headed out of Petersfield to the North and then a convoluted route on twisting narrow and quiet byroads via Hawkley up to the Queens Head, Selborne for lunch.

In the afternoon it was more backroads via Blackmoor and Greatham and then up to Rake to the Garden Centre for tea.

Adrian, Gill and Christine headed back via Petersfield while the rest of us headed back to Chichester via Rogate. I added a sting in the tail to the ride with a steep climb up Telegraph Hill to the Downs above Harting and then back via Chilgrove.

60 miles from and back to Chichester, about 25 miles from and back to Petersfield and 71 miles for me from Pagham.

Edwin