Date: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Route: WP, Clearbrook, HQ.
Riders: Gidon
Depart WP: 19:45
Arrive HQ: 20:45
Distance: Miles and miles
Weather: Drizzle

I eagerly arrived at WP to a surprisingly eerie silence. I noticed a few curtains twitching suspiciously but no one turned up and I resorted to thumping Colin’s door a few times before he answered with the look of someone very settled in for the night. Which indeed turned out to be the case. We arranged to meet at the pub at 8.45 and I just needed a short route to make a pint seem justified.

I set off on the loneliest GOWCC ride by far and covered more miles and at a faster pace than my GPS could even track to arrive exactly one hour later at HQ to meet Colin. I was sufficiently caked in mud to provide evidence of the impressive ride and sat down at the smallest table I could find to start on my pint knowing Colin wouldn’t let me down.

A pint later and no Colin I left the pub with my head down in shame to go and wake up all my children just for some company. Colin appeared as I headed off – the unusually damp August has messed up his legendary punctuality.

Reporter: Gidon