Nine turned up at Five Lanes for the Afternoon Run including the “Burrows Brothers” – Matthew and Martin – and Sue Shepley making her 1984 debut.

After a gentle run through the lanes to Newton Abbot we negotiated a busy town centre and turned off at Whitehill towards Teigngrace. We overshot the turn off to the Stover Lake plantation, as it looks something like the driveway to a house, but a shout from the read from someone who recognised the phone box soon had us bumping along the wide track to the lake. Matthew and I got slightly damp after riding through a one-foot deep puddle far too fast and had wet feet for the rest of the run.

We all stopped at the Lakeside and the “younger” ones amused themselves by skimming stones and dangling from bridges! After about forty minutes we left the lake and crossed the A38 (admiring the freshly written-off signpost) and rode through Bovey Tracey where Richard left us to “nip up” to Haytor to see the snow. Leaving him to his peril we pressed on through to Kingsteignton via the claypits road.

Sue’s legs were running out of steam going through Newton Abbot so we took the more level main road home to Torquay.

(Graham Brodie)

[We have been unable to find attendance records for this period, so the attendance list for this event is incomplete]