BikeRight! conquers Holme Moss
We missed the climb of Holme Moss at the Skylark Sportive in March (too windy hence too dangerous). So we’d had to content ourselves with watching the unfolding drama in July on TV as Froome, Contador and co powered up the 2-mile ascent & encountered the spectacular Yorkshire-meets-Derbyshire summit, not to mention the eye-watering descent through dalesides to die for.
Second hand excitement via a TV screen is not really our bag, so we were delighted when fit friends Jude & Simon announced not only had they bought a house in Holmfirth (congratulations) but also they were inviting us to join them and the other fit friends last Saturday on a 25-mile loop including up & down the veritable, the very same, the now notorious Holme Moss.
You know what - October can be gloriously sunny and warm, and even when the cloud descends you know there's a rainbow and magnificent scenes over the valley and reservoir just waiting for you the other side.
And that's how it all went. Yes we got a bit wet, but hey, up we rode, the steep bit out of Holme village, the flatter bit just beyond, the steady pull and then a couple of steeper efforts round bends (pushed aside by inevitable boy racers in souped up cars but fortunately only two of them). The road markings reminded us that Froome had been here before, and Contador (although "you've got no fans" was not a nice way to send Yorkshire hospitality to our foreign friends), and Hull CRC.
The motivational 1-mile,
half mile and quarter mile road markers did their job. Yup we got to the top, and it was not too hard,
despite our last ride being the Great Manchester Cycle at the end of June.
Ey Up Le Tour!
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