Ride 13/07/2025

Todays ride was one Nick organised and one that was going to be a long 100 miler one for me. Given the glorious weather we are having it was decided yesterday to go for a long one today whilst we have the opportunity to do so. So the route we took was the Loch Earn one and weather wise it’s just as hot and sunny as yesterday again with little wind 😁 The group started out with 8 of us but would ultimately split once we hit Gleneagles. To start with we would be heading over Knockhill and up Glendevon to Gleneagles where 3 of the group would split to go home via Dunning Common and the rest of us would continue on to Crieff. Our first cafe stop was closed, apparently they closed down last year so we headed on to St Fillans, just at the eastern edge of Loch Earn where we stopped for some fried egg rolls, coffee and cake 😋 I had ridden nearly 50 miles at this point so the food was much needed as well as replenishing my dwindling water supply. We continued on along the Loch.s north shore before heading into the Trossachs and around to Callendar where we had our second stop for some more coffee and cake (can never have too much cake 😆) It was then onwards back to Stirling using some of the same routes as last Sunday before we hit Alloa. From here it was the usual coastal route via Clackmannan and back to Dunfermline. So, I clocked up 115 miles and a decent pace of 17 mph, can’t complain at that 😀