Ride 01/06/2024 100 miles Dunkeld

Given the glorious weather that had been forecast for today we organised a 100 mile ride up to Dunkeld. 9 of us on the run today starting at 08:00 to get a head start of the traffic. We headed up over Knockhill, through Glendevon before making our way to Crieff, for our first stop of the day. Scrambled egg roll and OJ as per usual for me before we carried on. On such a nice day and with very little wind around we made steady but good progress through the small glen before our long decent down into Dunkeld. We then headed to Murthly where our second stop of the day would be had at lunchtime. Carrot soup, tuna sandwiches and sticky toffee pudding would be the order of the day 😋😁 washed down with some coffee. We would then head south towards Perth and this was where things went a bit pear shaped. The cycle path was gone, it was just a building site now where they were building a new road ☹ This forced us to find a way through which meant cycling off the beaten track and along some gravel tracks before finally picking up the road that entered on the outskirts of Perth. Back on the road now we carried on heading for Bridge of Earn but it was at this point we would lose Bill who wasn’t feeling well, some bad food we think, and he would get picked up and driven back home. Unfortunately Ken was also suffering from craps in his legs and would do so all the way home. We soldiered on, now on more familiar roads through Bridge of Earn, up Glenfarg and along to Milnathort before heading into Kinross and back towards Cowdenbeath and home. So I clocked up 105 miles at an avg speed of 16 mph on a nice hot sunny day 😊