Saturday was a pleasant Spring day in Beddington Park. We had walked it in the morning and there met Sue Sowden, who for years has given cycling lessons to adults to improve their confidence and fit them for the London roads, and she said she had two learners who were ready to move on to CTC Beginners. We chatted to them both and they seemed keen enough to come back at 2-o-clock. Then there was Katie, who cycles to work in StThomas' every day but her first outing with the club a couple of months back was keeping up with the fast Nonsuch group and she decided she had to get fitter. She had contacted Maggie and said she might come, so we had high hopes of welcoming an unprecedented three new riders from Beddington Park.
In the event, neither Sama nor Rekha turned up but Katie was there and said she was happy to come along on a ride which would be gentler than the Saturday fast group. We would have taken the other two to M.E.D at Merton Abbey but with Katie we felt we could go to Elmers End, where the good coffee awaits the other side of a busy multi-lane road junction, unsuitable for those nervous on the roads.
Maggie was fit enough to cycle the mile down to the Pavilion and then go straight home and off went the rest of us; Sharon, Katie and me on leg power and Ken, Roger and Anna battery assisted. Waddon, Central Croydon, past the Croydon Stadium and across South Norwood Country Park. Coffee and the five star cheese scone at Branching Out, back through Shirley Oaks and Addiscombe.
Thanks everyone for the company and we hope to see you again Katie.
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