Ride 18/08/2019

Well I’m back in the Scottish weather, wet and windy, it was back on with the mud guards and wet gear as today I would be riding in mostly rain and wind. Given the weather conditions I wasn’t surprised to find only 2 of us cycling today, I wish more people would at least take a chance on the weather because as it turned out after the cafe stop it started to dry up and stop raining with a few sunny spells by the time I got back to Dunfermline. There’s quite a stark contrast between the Sat ride and Sun ride in terms of the number of people willing to ride these days, any how 48 miles clocked up and I didn’t get totally drenched by the time I got home

Ride 17/08/2019

Well its back to normality this week and back on the club Saturday bun run. The usual ride today but there were a lot more members today than normal which meant we were quite a large group. Weather wise it was dry but quite windy and not too cold but I still wore my wind stopper and glad that I did as the last 3 miles were in the pouring rain Of course I had no mud guards on which meant I was very wet by the time I got home with a wet bun but at least it was towards the end of the ride so I had a hot shower to look forward to

Ride 10/08/2019

So I’m back home and it out with the club for my first ride back home. It’s a bit of a mixed bag day weather wise rain, sun and wind but over all it was mostly dry. The group decided to go a different way home this week by skipping our knockhill but I wanted to go up it so I went it alone so the usual 46 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 15 mph.

Ride 21/07/2019

Well it’s my last ride before my event next week and thankfully it remained dry. It was forecast to be overcast and sunny but I saw little or no sun and it’s supposed to rain later this afternoon. Another good avg speed today just shy of 17 mph and I’m feeling fit for the Nice ride. Now all thats left to do is pack the bike and my bag and I’m ready to go

Ride 20/07/2019

Well it’s a wet warm day for the bun run, did my usual split from the group after Knockhill and headed home via Cowdenbeath. One ride left before I head off to London next week

Ride 14/07/2019

Well thankfully the weather today is a lot better than yesterday low winds, no rain and a little overcast with some sunny spells. There was only 6 of us on the bun run today but that was fine as I was looking for a good workout today and I definitely got one. I did the same as last week course wise splitting from the group at Cairneyhill and heading along the coast to Inverkething before heading uphill to Crossgates. I did quite well today clocking up 55 miles at an avg speed of 17.2 mph better than yesterday so I’m very happy with that but my legs did feel like Jello when I got home

Distance 51.31 mi | Time 3:05:27 | Speed 16.6 mph | Elevation 2,569 ft

Source: Garmin Connect

On a warm wet day I did the usual bun run with the club but of course 5 miles from the start it started to rain, now I had my mud guards on thankfully but no wet gear so I got wet but so did the rest of the group as it wasn’t forecast to rain just be cloudy and warm. Anyway the rain didn’t last too long about 25 mins so I had a chance to dry out before we hit the cafe stop. On the return leg I split from the group after riding over knockhill and headed to Kelty and Cowdenbeath as I was looking to do 50 miles today at a reasonably fast pace. In the end I knocked up the 50 miles at an avg speed of 16.6 mph so I’m happy with that

Ride 07/07/2019

On a bit of a dull day I decided to miss the bun run and go with some of the other members on a more hillier ride over to dunning and back. Given that is was with some of the slower member of the club this was a fairly easy affair hence the avg speed of 13 mph. But given it had 4 hill climbs in it I still got a work out and clocked up just over 55 miles, normal service will resume next week

Ride 06/07/2019

It’s a nice day in Scotland for a bike ride so I was out with the 09:30 group following the usual route to the cafe stop at Muircot. After coffee we decided to deviate from the normal return leg and head down to Dollar and the head the full route over knockhill. I then left the group and headed a different way home as I wanted to do 50 miles today so I went home via Kelty and Cowdenbeath to increase my mileage to my target.

Ride 30/06/2019

So today was supposed to be the 100 miles club ride to Dunkeld but unfortunately we were riding with the wrecking crew which meant that I got dropped after about 20 miles. I didn’t know where the group was going to stop for a cafe break and I didn’t know the route since I’ve never been that way and I didn’t have the route on my garmin. So once I hit Crieff I decided to go my own way and given the terrible weather (strong winds and rain) I didn’t fancy my changes of doing the ride on my own. So I headed back down to Auchterarder and back over the Ochils heading for home. I still managed to clock up 75 miles so I’ll live with that and maybe on a better day I’ll do the ride on my own.

Ride 29/06/2019

Given that I’m doing the 100 miles club run tomorrow I was looking to do todays ride at a easy pace which is basically what I did. Although towards the end of the ride we decided to go up Saline rather then knockhill so I did hammer it a bit up that but other than that it was an easy days ride.

Ride 23/06/2019

Despite yesterdays longer ride and me still feeling that a little this morning I was expecting a slightly easier today but that wasn’t to be the case. There were only 8 of us today and it seemed to be only the fast ones left, even though this is the slower group. I managed to clock up an avg speed of 16.8 mph which is close to wrecking crew speed, much to my surprise given yesterdays ride. So I was glad that today’s ride was only 50 odd miles as going any further than that would be very difficult. But it was a nice day with warm temperatures and sunny skies so I was grateful for that.