Ride 06/05/2023

Bit of a wet one today, only 5 of us on the 08:30 ride given the weather. It was a little windy today as well not too hard but we had a tail wind to start with up to the cafe stop and then a head wind back home again. It started raining about 20 mins into the ride, thankfully I was in full winter mode expecting it to happen, so I was ok but the others were not, so before we got to the cafe stop 3 people bailed to go home and only 2 of us pressed onto the cafe stop. Thankfully the rain stopped by the time we got there but I was a bit wet going into the cafe. Scrambled egg roll and orange juice per usual orders before we continued on. With just the 2 of us it was a bit of a slog into the wind but thankfully the wind wasn’t strong so we kept up a decent speed. Going up Knockhill was a bit of a surprise as by the time we got to the top there was a little bit of sun and a noticeable change in temperature on the warm side, it was nice to experience Didn’t last very long mind you as by the time we got to the bottom it was back to the dull mild day. So 50 miles clocked up at 17 mph avg speed which for the day isn’t too bad.