Ride 26/12/2021 Boxing Day

It’s the club’s boxing day ride and today there were 5 of us. It’s not as cold or windy as yesterday but it did rain towards the end of my ride. We took a similar route as the normal Sunday ride but skipped a few sections to make it shorter, it would have been 40 miles rather then the usual 50 miles. I was going to change this up as I was looking for elevation again so once we hit Kincardine bridge I went off on my own towards Falkirk and up to Shieldhill. This would give me the distance and elevation I was after but not quite as much as yesterday in height. I was still doing 60 plus miles but only 3500 feet of climbing rather than the 4500 of yesterday. The rain held off until I was on my return leg but once I hit Kincardine bridge again it started to rain, thankfully not heavily. Yesterdays ride had taken its toll by the time I got back down to Falkirk from Shieldhill, I was tiring and struggling to get any speed so it was a slow ride back home barely able to get 15 mph and the last 10 miles would be back up hill. Anyhow 64 miles clocked up at 14 mph avg speed, not particularly fast but I was pretty tried and that was the best I could muster.