Oakover has to be my favorite Derbyshire group social ride (that I’ve tried). It has hills, views, great going over grassy rolling tracks and the helpers are numerous in number and abundant in humor. It’s such a lovely atmosphere.
It would make an excellent training ride in the run-up to Red Dragon, as it’s usually timed a few weeks before. It has over 200m elevation with 11 climbs. We did 18.7km (because we did the optional canter around Ilam park 3 times!) at 8.2kph average speed. 7.6km of walk, 7km of trot and 4km of canter. Tissy and I had a great time and I hope to be back next year.
Beth Endurance 