{"id":971,"date":"2017-03-12T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=971"},"modified":"2017-03-12T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T16:52:08","slug":"three-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Three Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"
11\/03\/17<\/h6>\n

I don’t know what was wrong with me last time<\/a>, as I found this – dare I say it – easy. \u00a0A pleasant enough ride if a little uninteresting. \u00a0The only section I was familiar with was Clumber Park<\/a>, but in the opposite direction this time. \u00a0The day was very mild and after the first stage I didn’t wear my windproof, and even at the start I had changed into thin gloves. \u00a0The sun tried to come through the cloud with limited success.<\/p>\n

I had brown rice the night before, then tea and a croissant on the train. \u00a0First control at 44 km was at a village hall with local ladies (very stereotypically the only males in sight were the riders and orgs) providing tea\/coffee and cakes. \u00a0Nice but not cheap, I understand the proceeds go to a local church fund so it’s better than tax-avoidant Starbucks which furnished me with breakfast. \u00a0Shortly after leaving the control I passed a couple of riders sitting on the verge, next to a pick-up with trailer facing in the wrong direction and two inhabitants. \u00a0It didn’t look as if I could be of any assistance so I kept on going. \u00a0I’ve since read on yacf that there were actually four riders, knocked off when a 4 x 4\u00a0towing a trailer overtook and came back in too quickly. \u00a0The driver didn’t stop, one of those involved said they might not have even realised what had happened (it was a large trailer). \u00a0The vehicle I saw was passing and the two guys in it sounded very helpful. \u00a0The worst casualty had two cracked ribs.<\/p>\n

On leaving Clumber Park a van slowed while passing me and the passenger warned that a wide load was coming up behind me and to watch out, always good to see considerate behaviour to balance the idiots. \u00a0It was indeed very wide and had a police motorbike escort, but I turned off before they caught me up.<\/p>\n

The second control was a free one in Southwell, which seemed a posh place complete with a minster. \u00a0I settled for a sandwich from a small shop and a receipt, then found some public toilets. \u00a0On the final leg back to Alfreton I stopped for the only photo of the ride, an addition to my collection of strangely located trig points (SK616558).<\/p>\n

\"Trig<\/a>
Trig point near Blidworth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I shared the ‘two’ bikes spaces on the train back with a couple from Sheffield who I spoke to on last years’ Colourful Clumber<\/a>. \u00a0The station is very close to the start and even better the return there is downhill.<\/p>\n

This was the first outing for my new luggage, a Carradice Super C rack bag<\/a>. \u00a0I bought this partly to use with the rack when combining audax with camping, but also as an alternative for a large saddle bag as there isn’t much room under my saddle. \u00a0This also means that the rack bag needs\u00a0to be quite far back which is a little inelegant but it seems very stable. \u00a0I think I prefer this to having most of the weight in the bar bag, but I must<\/strong> get a small cafe lock as the one I took is heavy. \u00a0I had no need of the full capacity on this ride (in fact I picked up 4 cans of Old Speckled Hen on the way home and had no difficulty fitting them in) but for longer\/more remote rides it will be useful.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/a>
Super C rackbag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Three<\/a><\/p>\n

105 km, 6 hrs 5 mins<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11\/03\/17 I don’t know what was wrong with me last time, as I found this – dare I say it – easy. \u00a0A pleasant enough ride if a little uninteresting. \u00a0The only section I was familiar with was Clumber Park, but in the opposite direction this time. \u00a0The day was very mild and after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audax","category-audax-from-train-stations","category-cycling","category-sloeadventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}