Ride 02/06/2024 DCC Sportive Full Route

So today’s ride was our clubs sportive Tour of the Kingdom, with 2 route options I went for the longer 92 miles route. I joined some of the other lads from the club making a group of 6 of us. For the first 25 miles we would follow the Saturday bun run, but rather going over Knockhill we went up Saline hill towards Cleish. We would be going over this hill twice today, once on the outbound leg and then on the return leg. Once over Cleish we headed for Leslie to climb our second big climb of the day over Falkland hill and down into Falkland itself. From here it was a straight shot to Freuchie where we would stop at the feed station. Since I race the TT’s here it was familiar territory and nice not to have to ride a lunatic here for once 😁 After our food stop we would be heading for Lindores before returning back on ourselves up the small climb to Auchtermuchty. We decided to take an “unofficial” break at Dunshalt for coffee and cake 😁 and then we were back on the road back to Falkland before swinging west for Strathmiglo. From here we’d take Dryside road before hitting the road around Loch Leven and then onto Kinross. We would then take on Cleish hill climb again before dropping back down to Dunfermline and our finish line. After some pizza and a couple of ours in the pub with the guys I headed home thus clocking up 102 miles overall, although I stupidly hit the finish button on my Garmin at the pub by accident, but still had the 5 miles to cycle home again 🙄 so I’m calling it 102 miles for the day at an avg speed of 17 mph 😊