Ride 14/04/2024 Galashiels Randonee

So this months Randonee is at Galashiels with 10 of us on the ride. Weather wise it was windy and wet, not the best conditions to do 80 miles in and the road surface was even worse 😣This made for a very hard 40 miles into a block headwind to our cafe stop and the rain showers didn’t help 😒Its got a fair bit of elevation in it too, not steep stuff but draggy stuff that saps your energy, so I was very glad to get to the cafe stop as I was running a bit low on energy at this point. Food wise, the cafe was so busy we had to have the left overs 😅 so it was Quiche with salad and some spare chips going around, but the best bit was the sticky toffee pudding with custard and thank God for that 😍I needed the calories plus my coffee. On the road back we would have the tailwind but OMG we hammered that 😳I was doing all I could to keep up with Alan and Paul, up until the point I got popped out the back, but that was enough to get a shit load of pb’s and a couple of cups 😁 I decided to just go TT mode from there on and kept that until I caught back up with Alan and Paul and just kept to my own pace from there on, which meant getting shot out the back a few times but I wasn’t caring at this point 😄 So 81 miles clocked up at an avg speed of just shy of 18 mph, which is quite impressive given by the time we got the cafe stop my avg was only 15 mph, we really did make up for it in the last 40 miles back home 😎