Ride 05/02/2023

It’s a bright sunny no wind day but frigging freezing, I started early again to do some extra at it was -2 degrees 🥶 I was going to do the loop over Knockhill via Cleish so I put the hammer down to stay warm, thus clocking up 22 miles by the time I hit the meet up point in Dunfermline. 8 people turned up today but by the time we got going I was frozen again and I didn’t warm up until I hit Knockhill for the second time. Usual route to the cafe stop for coffee and cake and we meet up with Robert on the way there who didn’t want to start at the same time as us and took the short cut to the cafe stop. At the cafe stop we meet up with Ken who had also gone a different route, so by the time we got going again we were 10. Thankfully by the time we got going again we were into positive figures temperature wise but it wasn’t any higher than 4 degrees by the time I got home again. I followed Ken down to Dalgety Bay and back up to Dunfermline again to round off my 75 mile target, averaging 15 mph but with over 4000 feet of climbing which is a good workout for me.