Wednesday 12th August 2026

Short Ride 1

Report by John

The forecast for a very hot day, and possibly people being on holiday, produced a below average turnout, with 3 rides departing Holt Drive.

John offered a ride to the Garden Centre at Cossington and was joined by Derek, Rob, John N. and Vic.

The riders headed south departing via Cross Lane and Shelthorpe, taking Wood Lane in Quorn and moving on to Rothley along The Ridings. Taking the path past Rothley Primary School, the group continued south along Loughborough Road, joining the new cycle tracks past the dried out drainage ponds and then climbing up to cross the A46 before descending to Birstall, meandering across to the Meadow Lane entrance to Watermead Park.

Rob in Watermead Park

Turning north, the riders wended their way to the Hope and Anchor, which now appears to be back in business, before taking the towpath towards Cossington.

A large vacant shaded table was located and refreshments were taken in the garden.

Eric, John C., Derek, Rob, John N. and Vic at the Tea Garden Café, Cossington

The group returned to Loughborough, with riders departing at various points along the way, via Sileby, Mountsorrel and Quorn, arriving back just after noon.

Short Ride

Report by Andrew

An eclectic band of six cyclists headed off to Millie's for a 25 mile ride on this hot sunny Wednesday morning.

Ian lead a group including myself (Andrew), David, Mick and Myles and Peter out through The Meadows, Stanford on Soar, Prestwold, Seagrave onto our much anticipated destination.

The return was the usual, traditional route through Barrow and Quorn, returning just before 1pm

The refreshments at Millie's were typically splendid and much enjoyed outdoors in the shade.

Andrew, Mick, Ian, Myles, David and Peter at Millies

A big thank you to the staff there, by mistake they overcharged me at the till and then brought me the overpaid money later on.. much appreciated honesty.

Much chat about the first singles that we purchased, I contributed that mine was the Bonnie Tyler classic “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.

I then used my mental dexterity, not seen in many years, to segway and ask who would be viewing The Eclipse at 7pm that evening.

Also discussed were the ticket prices and attendances at the Athletics in Birmingham, following on from which it was established one of our group had run 100m in 11 seconds. In a sense of delusion a number of us would like to claim this, however it was Myles who ran at this incredible speed.

Another member of our group had a phenomenal memory for information mostly of a musical or sporting nature!! All of it correctly checked out with Google, some of it even useful to know!! Step forward our ride leader Ian!!