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 😳