Ride 09/07/2023

So far better weather today than yesterday, sunny, hot but with a little bit of wind around but nothing too strong. I started early again to get some extra done in the morning and decided I would head over to Cleish Hill and do an effort up that to give me some idea of my performance up it. This data will come handy when I do the TT up it next month. I then headed for town to meet up with the rest of the club to do the Sunday bun run. It was quite busy there today, 12 of us, and we decided to do a different route to the normal one. Starting by heading for Saline, then past the usual Sunday cafe stop and head into Stirling. We would stop at the coffee bothy for our lunch break, where is was scrambled egg roll, coffee and banoffee pie before heading into Stirling and the swinging south over the river and heading for Bannockburn. We then headed east toward Airth before crossing back over the rive on the Kincardine bridge and picking up the usual Sunday route back to Dunfermline. Ken and I did the usual route down through Dalgety bay before I headed back up to Crossgates. I wasn’t finished for the day though I was looking to do 100 miles today since the weather was so nice and I don’t often get good days like these to do 100 miles. So I did an extra loop through Auchtertool, Lochgelly, Lohore, Kelty, Kingseat which took me back to Dunfermline and home to round off the 100 miles, and also getting some extra hills in So 100 miles clocked up today and an avg speed of 16.8 mph and over 5000 feet of climbing, not a bad days cycling.