Ride 19/07/2025 July Randonee Lite

Me, myself and I on the July Randonee today, and given the past few days of me getting soaked with rain, I was once again out on the winter bike with full wet gear. It started out quite foggy this morning and since I was on my own I decided to do the Randonee Lite just to keep the time down in the rain, this turned out to be pointless as the weather for today was perfectly fine 😕 as it would turn out. The route was only 30 miles long with me heading into Cumbernauld before heading towards Airdrie but not actually getting to Airdrie before I turned towards the road that would take me to Slamannan. From here the route would take you down to Falkirk and back to Denny, but given the weather was actually hot with no rain and little wind to speak of, I decided to bump it up by carrying on and going to ‘auto route’ mode via my brain rather than following my Garmin 😁 I knew all the roads around here from when I lived in Falkirk so rather than heading down to Falkirk I carried on to Shieldhill and then down to Falkirk before heading out to Polmont. I’d ridden this route a few times in the past but haven’t done this in years, so it was nice to be back to familiar roads. From Polmont it was onto Grangemouth, where I had a quick stop for a bite to eat at a petrol filling station and then it was back on the road to Skinflats before following Bellsdyke road to Larbert. Rather than take the main road back to Denny from Larbert I took the less familiar road to Dunipace which would ultimately take me to Denny and my finish. So, 45 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 16 mph, 30 miles is a bit short for a Sunday run so the 45 miles was perfectly fine for me 🙂