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 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.

Looped around the forth going the Stirling way.

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 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!

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 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

Ride 10/03/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details. Another dull windy day in the saddle this time to Shotts, riding up and down a lots of hills. Some nice speed going down but going up  is a pain and doing it very slowly (5-6 mph) doesn’t do much for the distance. And for some reason my Garmin decided to lose the plot and go crazy on the laps, God knows why…

Anyhow 52 miles clocked up today but it took me 5 hours to do it lets hope the Clock2Rock is flat or I’m in the saddle for up to 12 hours a day, and you can bet my arse will divorce me for that!

Ride 03/03/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details. So I decided to ride the reverse of what I did last week but going a slightly different route over cross country. It turned into a bit of a quagmire and me having to lift my bike over a lot of farmers gates. And all of that before I hit the steep side of Tak-Ma-Doon road. Took me 35 min to ride the 2 miles uphill in first gear, dam hard ride and very windy by the time I got to the top. But the fun stuff was now left, riding 10 miles down hill and reaching speeds of 35 mph

Ride 26/02/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details. Well its the first ride back after a month hiatus from it. Slow ride but some hilly bits in it. I need to get back in the swing of things, and hope my knee stops hurting.

Ride 21/01/2012 by scotlund@blueyonder.co.uk at Garmin Connect – Details.