after all the rain of the past few weeks there is no hope of an easy route out at the moment. I went out to cover some old ground I hadn't recorded from last year, and add in two new bridleways into the ride.

From Camer park, out onto the road back towards Sole Street, the first bridleway is on the right about 500 yards along the road. It starts as a gravel farm track, nice and easy and then cuts sharp to the left onto a muddy rutted, and heavily used ride. But it is downhill and a good ride down to the road out by "The Cock" pub. Turning left I'm heading back to Sole Street and then over towards Longfield hill via Round St. and left onto Copt Hall Rd.

The next bridleway is on the right, and loops around to join the main Wrotham road, its a great trail, and will be excellent once we have a drought and hose pipe ban, to clear some of the water away.

Turning right and left through Longfield hill down to Nurstead Lane and onto Longfield road, turn right towards Meopham the next bridleway is on the down hill on the right hand side. This promises to be a great trail, but is one of the worst routes in North Kent, its thick clay mud, with loads of horses using it this is almost un-rideable in the wet. My bike was clogged to the point the wheels wouldn't turn!

Once I tried to clean some of the mud off, the rear derrailleur got choked and bent the rear hanger, a quick and dirty bend and pull to get it working was needed. My gears now limited and not wanting to do any more damage I turned back and headed to Camer.