Ride 3/07/2022

I was looking to do a longer ride than the usual 50 bun run so today Ken and I decided we would ride the Tak Ma Doon hill climb today which would give us a ride of about 75 miles. We were into a head wind for the first 35 miles out to Kilsyth which is where the hill climb starts but this would also mean we would have a head wind taking us back home again It’s been a good 3-4 years since I’ve gone up Tak Ma Doon so it was nice to climb it again. We headed for Stirling once we crested the hill and on to Coffee Bothy for lunch. After a bowl of soup, coffee and cake we headed back home along the coast to Dalgety Bay. I decided I wanted to do some extra on top of that to get to 90 miles as we have the 100 mile Ranonee next Sunday and I wanted to make sure I was fit enough for that after my 2 weeks absence from cycling. So 90 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph and 4400 feet of climbing