WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN THE MONKEY HOUSE?

THE GORILLA TREASURE HUNT

The Treasure Hunt was a great success again- thanks to Rob Garrett for organising. We had 6 teams, 22 people taking part. The Hairy Dad Bods ( Oliver Agar, James Barber and Adam Maclean ) won with 1040 points after a mad dash to a far away 1000 point pub.

The Pirates of York Road with a cunning bit of route planning came second in some fetching piratical attire with matching parrots with 520 points , and the KOM squad came 3rd on 485. Pirates Playground ( 405) , Booty Snatchers (315) and On my Tod (341) all put in very creditable performances as well. Thank you to everyone for playing.

GORILLA ENDURANCE

Whilst some of us were playing Pirates, some of the troop were walking the plank, and a long plank it was too....!

Neil Cocklin and Joe Walker rode the 310km Knock Ventoux Audax , which had over 5000m of elevation around the Peak District on Sunday!

Sam Maybee and John Pears were doing a 190km "recon" for the 200 club over in Wales .

And Harry did the 230km Dad's Lane Dash on his own last Wednesday

Chapeau to you all.

KOMs and QOM's

There were quite a few Strava crowns i spotted this week as well:

QOMs

Pip Mayo took her first ever QOM - great stuff!

Joanne Ness

Sarah Damm

KOMs

Mohammed Arif

Paul Astin

Well done everyone.

THURSDAY RIDES

The rides for Thursday are up on the website . Use the code FREERIDE26 to get a weeks free trial. This week we have:

15-16mph Rob Anderson flat 25 miles up Broad lane

16-17mph Neil Cocklin flat 28 mile Fen Loop

16-17mph Harry's Hills

17-18mph Páraic Scanlon 25 mile out Bushwood way

17-18mph Adam Maclean 26 miles lumpy Cobley circuit

18-19mph Graeme 30 mile Studley loop.

There's also a couple of spaces left on Rob Garretts 100km Band of Climbers route for Saturday.

Full details , and to book on, all at the website.

Ride safe people.

Bruno