The Breakfast Run 13th June 2010
After a couple of sunny days in what had been a changeable week, weather wise, we awoke at 4.00am to a cloudy sky although it was quite mild. On our way to the start, some twenty miles from home, the temperature started to drop and the rain began to fall, by the time we reached the start, 6.00am for a 6.30am start, it was raining quite heavily.
As the bikes started to arrive the rain eased off and we were able to sign on fifteen riders and three passengers almost in the dry. Young Phil Roberts holed a piston on his bike last week so ended up on the back of dad, Matyn, for the run.
The other two passengers were my wife Fran and Past President Bette Barber who had come all the way from Salisbury on the back of Ian Clark’s BMW.
Bette came to our breakfast run when she was President and liked it so much she was prepared to leave home at 4.00am to join us again this year, thanks Bette and Ian for your support, Ian had to leave his house much earlier than 4.00am to pick Bette up.
Although it stayed cool the fifty plus mile route was done with just the odd spot of rain, the route followed a mix of narrow country lanes and flowing traffic free “A” roads, skirting the villages of Avon Dasset, Farnborough and many others as we do not like to take the bikes through the middle of villages at that time in the morning, it took us up Sunrising Hill and round the lakes of Fawsley Park. Everyone arrived safely, if not a little chilled, at the Willoughby Café for a well received hot breakfast.
Our thanks go to Fran Wiles for the route, Harry Wiles for the organisation, and the staff at the Willoughby Café for their hospitality. Thanks also to Bette and Ian for travelling all the way from Wiltshire.