This week’s ride is planned for Saturday.  I figured as we are all at our house Saturday night for dinner, we could go out biking and the girls could do the cooking.  A win / win situation if ever there was one; the ladies get to show off their culinary skills and also get their husbands returned from the trip toned like Adonis.

The ride is at Chopwell woods near Gateshead, which is a small wood owned by the forestry commission.  There is one official track but a lot of other tracks that have been created by bikers.  I’ve dowloaded a route off t’internet that is 8.4 miles long, same as the route we normally do at hamsterly.  I think the climbing is a little less severe though.

The route map and profile are shown below.