Ride 27/08/2022

It’s a good weather day, with little wind around and some sunshine, not too hot, there were 22 of us today split over 2 groups. I joined the club up until the cafe stop but I was looking to do some extra miles today, so once I had my roll and fresh orange juice I split from the group to go my own way. I had a route in mind but it’s one that although I ridden bits of it before there was some new roads that I had not ridden down before so I was looking forward to some new roads. I rode to Bannockburn on familiar road but once here I detoured to the new road that I’ve never been down before which would take me to Carron Valley Reservoir. IT’s quite a lumpy road but through some stunning scenery but the road itself was in bad shape so I couldn’t go too fast in fear of a puncture or worse. It would be a great gravel bike road which would take the punishment better but I don’t want to ruin my new bike Once I hit the Reservoir I was back on familiar road and headed for Crow road and down to Lennoxtown. It was a straight shot home from here with a slight detour to my Uncles to top up on water, as I hadn’t measured the distance I was cycling I was running out of water. I wasn’t planning to ride a 100 miles today, I though the route would be about 80 miles, but I got that wrong Anyhow once refueled I rode back home via the usual roads going through Dunfermline rather than via Rosyth. I was going at a fast pace and was getting very tired by the time I hit 90 miles so I went home via the shortest route to save my crumbling legs. So 100 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 17 mph, which makes it one of the fastest 100 miles (successfully) completed to date, by about 2 mins