Ride 20/08/2023

So today Ken, Nick and I were going to be doing a 100 mile ride along to Dundee and Perth and back to Dunfermline. Today was pciked because weather wise if was the best day of the weekend, with sunny spells and no rain. Although there was some wind around which meant we would start with a tail wind to Dundee but a head wind to Perth. It was an early start at 08:00 when we set off heading for Kinross and Milnathort before going down Glenfarg and along to Abernethy for our first cafe stop. Actually the cafe stop was just pass Abernethy in Carpow where we stopped once before coming back from a ride to St Andrew, it was the usual scrambled egg roll and OJ. We then continued on to Newburgh and the road the parallels the river Tay before down on to the A92 to Newport on Tay and crossing the Tay bridge. We would now be following the north side of the River Tay staying on quiet roads before heading north over the A90 and up and over Kinnoull Hill and down to Perth. One in Perth we headed south to Bridge of Earn and our second cafe stop at the Earn coffee shop where I stocked up on some coffee, cheese and ham paninis and caramel cake We were then on the last leg of our ride back up Glenfarg and back the way we came to start with only this time we went through Cowdenbeath and Crossgates. I decided I would do some extra as well since I was feeling good still, so I followed Ken down to Dalgety Bay and then headed for Cairneyhill then up to Oakley. It was at this point I decided I would try to beat my current distance record of 133 miles, so I continues on heading up to Blairadam and down to Kelty and doing a quick loop around home and Cowdenbeath thus clocking up 141 miles making this my new distance record It has been along day in the saddle though to achieve this, nearly 9 hours but I still managed to do that at an avg speed of 16 mph and not feel completely shattered by the time I got home, so all in all a good days ride