Ride 09/06/2012 by PaulLund at Garmin Connect – Details.
Didn’t ride too far today as I had to go to my mum’s 60th birthday party.
Ride 09/06/2012
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Ride 04/06/2012 Falkirk to Edinburgh via Canal
Falkirk to Edinburgh via Canal by PaulLund at Garmin Connect – Details.
Rode to Edinburgh and back via the Canal.
Ride 26/05/2012 Falkirk to Perth
Ride 26/05/2012 Falkirk to Perth by PaulLund at Garmin Connect – Details.
So it’s a nice sunny day and I think I will ride to Perth today.
Cycle stats – 93 miles covered, cycle time 11 hours, 8 of which I’m actually pedalling, 5400 feet of hills climbed :-0
Sunburn stats – right arm fucking cremated and HURTS!!! left arm not burnt, left leg not burnt, right leg fine bar the back of my knee brunt, but not badly, right ankle brunt, but not badly, back of neck burnt quite badly but not in much pain.
Did I use sun block HELL YEAH factor 30! will use factor 60 next time if it exists. I think my arm got it because the sun was on it constantly for 11 hours. Sun on my right on the way to Perth, sun on my right going back home :’-( need to monitor the suns progress and take appropriate action.
Ride 19/05/2012
Ride 19/05/2012 by PaulLund at Garmin Connect – Details.
Needed to do a little work in the office so decided to ride there and go around the forth anti-clockwise in the process.
Ride 05/05/2012 Falkirk to Crieff
Ride 05/05/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.
Another ridiculous hilly long distance ride over the Ochils to Crieff and back but the interesting part is by dropping my average speed by 1 mph, from 12 to 11 I’ve managed to do 82 miles. It definitely pays to ride slow my average heart rate has dropped to 150 bpm instead of the usual 160/170 bpm, which in turn reduces the calories I’m burning and thus I can ride further But the most important part is I don’t feel like shite and my legs don’t hurt, although I have a slightly sore bum and my neck was nipping something stupid, but I was riding over 9 hours, and the more I ride the more I learn.
Ride 28/04/2012
Ride 28/04/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.
Looped around the forth going the Stirling way.
Ride 21/04/2012
Ride 21/04/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.
Due to the Met office weather warning I decided to ride fairly close to home, I didn’t want to get stuck in a storm 35 miles from home. Started 09:47 in the morning but didn’t finish till about 20:00, but didn’t get many miles done just to stopping for the rain and for food. Suffice to say my bum is sore!
Ride 14/04/2012
Ride 14/04/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.
Well the plan was to ride to Perth today but unbeknown to me the Garmin decided to take me on a 50 mile detour >:-( After riding 20 miles I see a sign that says Perth 33 miles away and I wonder WTF! I check the Garmin and after much swearing I abandoned the ride, I’m not ready to do a 100 mile ride yet. Rode to Edinburgh instead and back home. This is what I get for not programming the Garmin before hand which is what I would normally do for a ride, but I didn’t think the satnav was that bad!
Evans Cycles Ride It Callander Road event 2012
Well after yesterdays punishing ride I wasn’t going to do anything big here so went with the short route of 25 miles. A slightly better ride but with tough bits at the beginning and end.
Evans Cycles Ride It event Callander MTB 2012
Evans Cycles Ride It event Callander by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.
That was the most brutal ride I’ve ever experienced! Decided to go for the extra long route which is 40 miles long but i did not expect to meet a 2000 foot hill to climb! Suffice to say I really struggled with this one and spent a good time walking it, and even that was a struggle. Took me a hour to just walk up it and 5 hours to do the full ride, and coming down the other side was scary as its all stone paths, very uneven and at speed! Think I’ll stick to the long routes as they are only 30 miles and no insane mountains to climb.
Just as well it was flat the last 8 miles!
Ride 24/03/2012 Gleneagles Loop
Gleneagles Loop by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details. Quite a tough ride this week not only to the distance (75 miles) but the hills that I would be climbing over. Decided to ride to Gleneagles in a large loop that would take me over the Ochil hills and back again. So down to Stirling, over the Ochil hills along the A9 to Gleneagles, then back over the Ochil hills down to dollar and Kincardine. Total distance back to Falkirk was only 62 miles so I continued around Larbert to bump up the miles to 75. Foggy to start with but by lunch time it was sunny, all in all a good ride, except for the sore butt!
I’m doing the Evan cycles Ride It events next weekend so no long distance riding that weekend, just lots of fun as I ride around the Trossachs and no sore bum.
Ride 17/03/2012 to Callandar.
Ride 17/03/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details. Well it was a nice sunny day so I decided to ride to Callandar up near the Trossarchs, I’ll be riding there again in 2 weeks doing the Evans Ride It event for Scotland, both the off road and on road rides over Saturday and Sunday this time. Its a pity that this is the only ride it event in Scotland all the others are in England Anyway it was a 63 mile ride and boy do I feel it, sore all over, and if this was the clock2rock I would only be half way! for one day, scary stuff…
Should have taken my camera I had some good views, will do next time. Anyhow 63 miles in 5 hours, which oddly enough was how long it took me to do 52 miles last week. What a difference no hills makes