Ride 08/02/2025

20+ of us on the bun run today and weather wise it was quite the mixed bag of a little bit of wind, rain, sunshine and snow 😐 quite frankly the weather didn’t know what it was doing. Anyway I joined the first faster group as per usual on our way to the cafe stop, it was here we got the sunshine and tailwind. After my usual roll with hash browns and sausage and orange juice we headed back home the normal route where we were hit with the wind and rain, it wasn’t raining hard or a lot but enough to be irritating. It was at the point of going over Knockhill that that rain became sleet and snow 🙁 my saving grace was I was going hard over Knockhill so I didn’t get too cold or wet and by the time I had got over it, it had stopped snowing or raining and we got the sun back 🤷‍♂️ Anyhow 47 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph.

Ride 02/02/2025

7 of us on the bun run today and weather wise it’s a bit milder than yesterday, around 4 degrees or so, but it did rain last night so the roads were wet still. Usual route to the cafe stop today but the group split so I ended up riding with David, Paul and Mark until we got to the cafe stop. Coffee and cake were had as per usual before we headed home but this time I was just riding with David as everyone else had shot off. So overall it was a good ride today I did 50 miles at an easy pace, avg 16 mph 🙂

Ride 01/02/2025

I didn’t count how many were on the bun run today and I even forgot to post last Sundays ride altogether 😣 So starting with the new month at an educated guess there were over 20 of us at the start of the ride and as per usual I joined the first faster group heading on the usual route to our cafe stop. Weather wise it was dry but cold, couple of degrees above freezing but not windy, so a decent day to cycle. 11 of us in the first group doing a decent pace to the cafe stop at Sterling Mills. I had my new regular meal of orange juice and a hash brown and square sausage roll with brown sauce 😊 The scramble egg roll has to be cooked whilst I wait and the roll they use makes it soggy 🥺 so not having to wait for my meal and getting a “solid” roll was the better option. Afterwards we took the usual route home up to Yetts and doing the full knockhill climb from Powmill, I pretty much lead the whole way with only Colin and Joe in tow 😉 So 47 miles clocked up at an avg speed of just under 17 mph 👍

Ride 18/01/2025

27 of us on the bun run this morning which isn’t bad for the middle of winter. We split into 3 groups with me joining the faster first group as per usual. The route was a slight detour to the norm, rather than going the back roads we stuck to the main roads down to Tillicoultry and our cafe stop. Doing things different this week fuel wise I still had the orange juice but changed up the scrambled egg roll for a roll with square sausage and hash browns 😀. The route home was the usual one though so 45 miles clocked up at just shy of 17 mph avg.

Ride 12/01/2025

I wasn’t cycling yesterday due to the frozen weather conditions but today had “warmed” up a bit to zero degrees which was tolerable. So 7 of us on the bun run today doing the usual route to the cafe stop. Little bits of snow and ice here and there but nothing to get worried about and the roads had been gritted so we were fine all the way to the cafe stop. Coffee and cake were had before we cycled back home again. So 50 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 15 mph, a standard bun run winters day 😊

Ride 04/01/2025

Well first bun run of the year and it was a cold one, to get out of my estate I had to walk the bike given the roads were just sheet ice since they don’t get gritted 😕 But thankfully once I was on the main roads, which had been gritted I was fine. So 5 of us on the bun run today and weather wise it’s bloody cold 🥶 negatives numbers to begin with so the ride to the cafe stop was with frozen fingers and toes. I had coffee and cake today, I won’t be cycling tomorrow given the atrocious weather tomorrow, so went with Sundays fueling strategy 😄 Thankfully the trip back home was a far better experience since the temperature had risen a degree to Zero so I wasn’t frozen anymore. We decided to take the same route back home given the conditions as we weren’t sure what sort of condition Knockhill would be in so we took the safer option of riding the roads we already knew were ok. So 48 miles clocked up today at an avg speed of 15 mph, next weeks weather is even worse so I’ll be sticking to the smart trainer next week 😳

Ride 28/12/2024

15 of us on the bun run today and weather wise its overcast, mild with some wind but thankfully no rain. Doing the usual route today would of course mean a head wind to start with so I lead out with Colin for the first 10 miles before we peeled off and let someone else lead. We took a slight detour to the cafe stop to skip out some of the hills, basically following the reverse of the Sunday run to get to the cafe stop at Sterling Mills. The usual scrambled egg roll and OJ were the fuel of the day. Afterwards we headed along the hillfoots to Dollar and Yetts o’Muckhart before swinging South to go over Knockhill and back down to Dunfermline and home. So 47 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph which puts me at just over 9500 miles for the year, a little bit down on last year, but given the health issues this year thats not too bad and I’m now bad up to my previous performance so all looking good for next year 😀

Ride 14/12/2024

9 of us on the bun run this morning and weather wise it very cold with patchy ice here and there but dry, no rain, and little wind with some sunny spells mixed in. We did the usual route today with some minor detours to stick to roads that had been gritted but still ended up at Sterling Cafe for our coffee stop. I had the usual orange juice and scrambled egg roll before we headed home again. The route home was over Knockhill, done at a fare pace but I was happy with it as I can keep up now, before descending back down to Dunfermline. So 46 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 15 mph, and there won’t be an outdoors ride tomorrow due to the bad weather conditions.

Ride 08/12/2024

Well after yesterdays storm there was 6 of us on the bun run this morning. Doing the usual route today with a slight change in the cafe stop, going to Cafe 44 rather than Sterling Mills, although Sterling Mills would have been the better place given the fiasco we had at Cafe 44 🙄 Weather wise it was dry with some sunshine to begin with, still a bit windy, but most of it was crosswinds but cold, so I had plenty of layers on. We made it to Cafe 44 fairly quickly, its a closer cafe stop and we were keeping a steady pace. Coffee and cake were had at the cafe but it was a slow service but paying turned out to be a real issue given they couldn’t take card payments and even when we tried to pay cash this was a problem as well 😬 I didn’t have any cash so David covered our table but man what a piss take, won’t be going back there any time soon. Anyway after we got back on the road it was fine, still kept a good pace all the way back home. I’m glad to see that my performance it back up and I had a decent ride today where I could put power down and hold it without running out of breath 😁 Although today wasn’t the fastest Sunday ride it was still a good 50 miles at an avg speed of 16 mph and I’m happy with that as I don’t feel knackered and still have some effort left in the tank, lets hope things improve and don’t fall off a cliff again.

Ride 01/12/2024

7 of us on the bun run this morning doing the usual route along to Sterling Mills Cafe. Weather wise same as yesterday, overcast, although the sun did come out eventually, little wind and damp, so we got muddy as yesterday. Soup and coffee were the order for the day before we headed back the normal route. Standard day nothing special so 50 miles clocked up at an avg speed of just shy of 16 mph, fine with me 😊

Ride 30/11/2024

Forgot to post this yesterday, so here is it today. 22 of us on the bun run this morning and weather wise its overcast, a little wet, but not raining, with a little wind but not enough to cause any headaches.We split into 2 groups with me going in the first group doing the usual bun run heading for Muircot but with the cafe stop just down the road at Stirling Mills. With the roads wet we were a little mucky by the time we got there upon which I went for my usual scrambled egg roll and OJ. Afterwards we headed out towards Dollar and up to Yetts before swinging South up and over Knockhill and back down to Dunfermline and home. So 50 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph, even though I was in the first group we kept a steady pace and didn’t go hard so the speed was kept sensible today 😁

Ride 24/11/2024

3 of us on the bun run today, me Mark and Colin and weather wise, well what a turn around from yesterday 😮 All the snow had gone over night, the roads were clear, with a few small patches of snow here and there but nothing to worry me from riding today. It was a little bit windy, but now rain and it was sunny, the calm after the storm 😀 We did the usual bun run route today with the cafe stop now located at The Mills Cafe in Tillicoultry, a very minor change to Muircot, so essentially the same distance wise. At the cafe stop I had soup coffee and cake, this time I could have the cake since I have my tooth back now 😁 It was a slight headwind on the way out but this would mean a tail wind all the way home which was nice, so today I clocked up 50 miles at an avg speed of 16 mph.