Ride 21/07/2024

9 of us on the bun run today and another decent weather day, a little bit windier than yesterday but not enough to bother me 😊 Usual route today over Knockhill, down to Dollar and up to the cafe stop for the usual coffee and cake. We had a head wind on the way to the cafe stop but that also meant we had a tail wind all the way home again 😊 with Ken and I taking the slightly longer route home via Dalgey Bay and back up Goat Quarry hill to Crossgates. So that meant 55 miles clocked up at a decent speed of over 17 mph.

Ride 20/07/2024

28 on the bun run today, weather wise its quite warm and dry, good cycling weather ☺ We split into 3 groups with me in the faster first group again. Not quite as crazy fast as last week but still a fast ride today, we were just over the hour getting to the cafe stop, good pace for me, requiring some effort but not blowing me up 😁 Usual OJ and roll for fuel before we headed back, taking the normal route home and not doing any extra even though it was a nice enough day to do so. So 50 miles clocked up at just over 18 mph and I’m happy with that 🙂

Ride 13/07/2024 July Randonee

Since there was no official Randonee this month I organised an ad-hoc one starting in Denny and heading out to Balloch and Loch Lomond and returning to Denny. 7 of us on the ride today and weather wise it was quite pleasant, no rain, warm with little wind 😊 All of the elevation was stacked towards the beginning of the ride, but it’s a lumpy route, so even after the cafe stop we still had a few lumps to get over. We started in Denny and straight away we were climbing up to Carron Valley. We would then head for Fintry and drop down into Killearn before heading along to Balloch where we would have our cafe stop. Soup, coffee and cake were the order of the day before we headed back to Denny. This time we would take the slightly flatter route to Strathblane, Lennoxtown and Kilsyth before the last 10 miles back to our starting point in Denny. So 66 miles clocked up at an avg speed just under 16 mph, and we even had some sunshine on the way back 😀

Ride 13/07/2024

Well this was an interesting ride, 19 of us at the gates this morning so we split into the usual 2 groups, the first group being the faster one, which I’m in, and we head for the usual cafe stop. What I didn’t know was they were planning to take the KOM for this route and it was put the hammer down from the start 😮 We absolutely motored our way around the route avg over 21 mph all the way to the cafe stop which was a 20 mile ride. Suffice to say I was a sweaty mess by the time we got the cafe stop, I had dressed for a rainy day, which it did not 😠 so I was pretty cooked by the time we stopped. But all in all we broke the KOM and got to the cafe in 56 mins and since 4 of us all rocked up at the same time I got the KOM as well 😁 The usual OJ and roll for the stop before we decided on the route home. This being heading down to Dollar and along to Milnathort before heading south again towards Kelty and home. I was hoping we would calm down for the ride back home but nope, it was a rapid ride back as well. So I clocked up 55 miles in under 3 hours, which is damn fast even for me, with an avg speed of 19 mph 😳😎

Ride 07/07/2024

11 of us on the bun run today doing the usual Sunday bun run route. Weather wise it’s not as windy as yesterday but I didn’t check the weather forecast this morning and that was an error as I would find out later on. Anyway usual stop at Muircott for coffee and cake before heading back home again. Unfortunately it was when we hit Fishcross and Clackmannan the heavens opened up, and I was planning to do extra today by riding to Denny but that put the nail on the head to that idea, so I just followed everyone else and headed home instead. I had no wet weather gear, had I looked at the forecast I may have made a better decision but it was what it was. So I was wet through for the rest of the ride back, thankfully the rain did eventually stop and I did dry out a little bit but my feet were soaked and I was covered in a lot of spray. We took the longer way home from Cairneyhill down to Roysth and Dalgety bay before heading back up hill via Mill farm road where it started to rain again, but by this time I was only 5 mins from home so didn’t care 😊 So 55 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 17 mph.

Ride 06/07/2024

Well this was a better ride than last week, I feel a little bit more myself, not quite 100% but getting there. After taking a few days off and the stupid hard TT race this Wednesday 😫 which although I took easier than last time, I actually didn’t do as bad as I thought 😊 I’m feeling not as fatigued as last Saturday. So weather wise the forecast was for rain, but ironically it didn’t rain when I was riding, I was fully prepared for it with overshoes and rain jacket but in the end I didn’t need them 😊 21 of us today so we split into 2 groups and I joined the faster paced first group doing the normal bun run route, I wasn’t going to be doing extra just due to the weather forecast. Usual food and drink at the cafe stop before we headed back home over Knockhill and down to Dunfermline. Tomorrow is a better weather day to I’ll get my extra miles tomorrow but for today I clocked up 50 miles at an avg speed of just under 18 mph and that will do me nicely 😃