Ride 25/12/2025

I decided to ride to Kilsyth today particularly to cycle over Tak Ma Doon road (read big hill here 😋), but in the reverse route that I would normally do which I haven’t done in quite some time. Given it’s Christmas day I knew it would be a quiet day and the weather was perfect for a longer ride, which was another reason to go to Kilsyth as I was looking to clock up a 100k today 😁 I headed back to the old stomping grounds of my former home, Falkirk, and then into Denny and along to Carron Valley where I joined the Tak Ma Doon road heading over the south side of the hill, which is a bit easier since it not as steep. This takes you down into Kilsyth were for me it was a straight shot back to Denny and Falkirk and then over Kincardine bridge and Dunfermline. I didn’t stop for obvious reasons (nothing is open 😁) and did the 70 miles in one non-stop ride. It’s mostly a flat route with the aforementioned hill in it so I did the ride fairly quickly at a time of 4 hours 15 mins, which isn’t very fast but still 16.5 mph avg and that was fine with me 😀