Ride 28/09/2025
6 of us on the bun run today and it’s quite a pleasant day weather wise, chilly to start with but eventually the sun came out and warmed up the place. Usual run to the cafe stop for coffee and cake before heading home again. I decided to do some extra given it’s a nice day to cycle so did an extra loop over Cleish before heading back home again. So 73 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph 🙂
Over 40 of us on the bun run today and weather wise it’s overcast but dry with little wind, so a decent day for cycling. I went with the first group today and given this was the slower ride at 09:00 I still had to ride at the 08:30 pace 😬 Not that I mind too much, it just wasn’t expected. Anyhow I did the normal route today with the cafe stop at the usual Stirling Mills cafes for roll and orange juice. Things went a little wry on the way back as I thought we were going to be riding to Milnathort, so Paul and I waited for the rest to catch up with us on the split for Knockhill, only to find out that everyone went over Knockhill 🙄 so you can imagine the chase we had to give to catch everyone up when we realised that everyone went over Knockhill instead 😳🥵 This lead to a very fast finish to the ride for us with some cups gained on the way 👍🏆 but I did burn poor old Paul a bit in the process 😁 This also meant that I was short on my distance by the time I got home so I had to tag on an extra 4 miles to make it to the 50 mile mark with and avg speed of over 18 mph 🚴 😅
10 of us on the Sunday bun run and it’s another cold morning but sunny and a little bit of wind, the usual headwind to start with and tailwind to end with. Standard route for today with coffee and cake at the cafe stop before we headed home again. With some of the stronger riders in the group today it was a faster ride than normal with me clocking up 50 miles at and avg speed of over 17 mph, but given we are now heading into the winter months this will probably drop from now onwards.
Belated yesterday’s ride on the early bun run, which was the last of the season. 8 of us turned up on a chilly morning albeit sunny with little wind. Normal route today to the cafe stop for the usual roll and drink before heading home again. Given my racing season is over now I decided to follow the rest of the group up to Milnathort and Kelty before heading home. So 60 miles clocked up at an avg speed of over 18 mph and that will be the last of that as I return to the slower 09:00 group next week 🙂
6 of us on the Sep Randonee today and weather wise it was a bit chilly, overcast but not too windy but it was forecast to rain later on, so I was prepared with appropriate clothing which I was glad I had as it kept me warm today. Unfortunately for Colin he punctured just shot of Muthill and had to abandon the ride after 30 miles but we made it to the cafe stop in Crieff. Soup, cake and coffee were the order of the day before we continued on. We were kinda lucky today as the road over the moors was closed but we were able to get through, had we not gotten through it would have been quite the trek back the way we came as we had ridden 50 miles by that point. With a quick stop in Stirling for water we continued on through Aloa and down to Kincardine with the coastal road back to Dunfermline. I was looking to do 100 miles today so I continued on until my target with a little extra around Cowdenbeath before heading home. We were also lucky in that we didn’t get rained on as it was forecast to rain around 14:00 today but I managed to stay dry all the way up to 16:30 😁 Anyway 100 miles clocked up at and avg speed of 17 mph happy with that.
Just Calum and I on the early bun run this morning, at least until Kincardine where Calum turned back to Dunfermline as he had a time limit on what he could do this morning. After that I was on my own to the cafe stop for the usual roll and orange juice. I meet up with the normal bun run group and followed then for the ride back home. Nothing extra this week, it was a straight shot home on the usual route over Knockhill and down to Dunfermline, and thankfully I beat the rain home. It was a cold start this morning, you can feel autumn is coming, but the sun was out a couple of times, but it got quite dark on the way home and as stated I got home just in time to miss the rain. So 51 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 17 mph.
10 of us on the bun run today and weather wise it’s pretty much the same as yesterday but probably a little windier. No frills today, normal route taken with coffee and cake at the cafe stop before heading home again, although I did lead pretty much the entire ride round, but this was fine, I wasn’t going hard today. So 50 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph.
4 of us on the early bun run and weather wise it’s a little overcast, light winds and warm, although the sun did show it’s face here and there. Usual route to the cafe stop for my morning roll and orange juice. We decided to take a different route home this time by heading to Stirling but swinging away from it at the last moment as we crossed the Forth river and headed north towards Bannockburn. We didn’t go into Bannockburn as we turned again back East towards Plean but took the quieter roads past the Pineapple and into Airth before crossing Kincardine bridge and heading back along the cost towards Dunfermline. Overall I clocked up 67 miles at an avg speed of 18 mph, a little low on the elevation but it was a flat route we took so that couldn’t be helped 😉
7 of us on the Sunday bun run and weather wise it was warm but very windy, with most of the wind being cross wind 😬 Usual route this morning down to Stirling Mills cafe for coffee and cake 🙂 On the way back I think the wind picked up a little bit which made for some interesting cycling but overall a good day’s ride. 50 miles clocked up at an avg pace of 17 mph, not bad for a windy day 😅
7 of us on the early bun run and weather wise it’s overcast but dry, warm and little wind. It was the usual route to the cafe stop for the usual fueling options, but afterwards since I have now finished the hill climb races I didn’t need to go up Cleish hill climb this week so I decided to join the rest of the group by heading up to Milnathort and doing a loop around loch Leven, before heading for Cowdenbeath and home. So, 65 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 19 mph, which is quite fast for a bun run ride but not too stressful for me, so I’m calling that a win 😁
Me, myself and I on the bun run this morning and weather wise it was a bit of a surprise as yesterday it said it would be raining, it was not. What it was, was sunny and quite warm with a little wind. Sometimes it’s nice to ride on your own, as you can go at your own pace rather than at the group pace, and you can set your own course. I decided to start with the usual Sunday bun run route over Knockhill, down to Dollar and Tillicoultry for the usual cafe stop, where I had coffee and cake. But it was from this point I changed the route to go back over Knockhill, tracing the route I had just ridden down. As I got to the top of Knockhill I rode back down again but only to the turn off to Cleish where I headed to do the Cleish hill climb. Once over Cleish it was to Kelty and Hill of Beath I rode to, before heading back home again. So I clocked up 60 miles at just under 17 mph but with a good amount of climbing for the day which is what I was after 😊
7 of us on the early bun run this morning and weather wise it’s overcast, little wind but a bit chilly to start with, but it would warm up a little bit as the day went on. Usual route to start with before we hit the cafe and my usual little effort from Alva to Tillicoultry 😃 At the cafe stop I had my usual roll with hash browns and sausage with orange juice before we headed back home again. Like the past couple of weeks I stayed with the group until we got to Yetts before I split from the group and headed for the hill climb at Cleish. I did a couple of reps up that before heading down to townhill and Dunfermline and then onto home. So 61 miles locked up at an avg speed of just under 18 mph which puts me in good stead for my hill climb race up Cleish hill next week 😁