Dorset Coast 200 - Perm - update

A game of two halves for this ride ...only a 200k ..surely we don't need to take it too seriously!  For the first half we definitely thought we were on a touring holiday, stopping every 5 minutes to take photso of the stunning coastline view, enjoying Cafe Latte's in the sun and cooling down with 99's from an icecream van parked at the top of a climb!   However payback eventually came after 100k when we realised we were in danger of being out of time ....and just as the climbing really began after West Bay towards Axminster!   So the ride lived upto our expectations in all ways .....a great route, stunning scenery, perfect weather and some serious climbing to make sure we ticked the 'training' box!! Never underestimate a ride from the Wessex SR series!!

 

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To keep the legs turning on the 10 week run-in to PBP the Faccombe boys are out this Saturday on this South Coast Audax classic. We're riding it as a Perm' so it will be just the 3 of us but hopefully meeting up with some other local audaxers enroute.  It's a fairly lumpy 200 (just over 2000 metres of climbing) that starts in Poole and heads out via the Sandbanks ferry along the Jurassic coast of  Dorset before tunring up to the tunraround point at Axminster. Then it's more hills  heading East, slightly inland, back towards Poole via Dorchester.  We're going to take ina couple of diversions down to Lulworth Cove and West Bay to get the full seaside, icecream and bitter shandy experience and it looks like we've blagged a weather window. Hurrahh!