{"id":5853,"date":"2025-11-09T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:08:53","slug":"ride-08-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5853","title":{"rendered":"Ride 08\/11\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ride 08\/11\/2025<\/a><\/em> <\/p> \n

Today’s bunrun (a day belated since I’m writing this on Sunday) weather wise was wet, overcast but little wind. Quite a large group of us turned up, probably close to 30, don’t know why the weather was crap, but I joined the usual 2 group. Heading to the cafe I was able to take a turn leading, performance is coming back but still a long way to go before I get it mostly back. At the cafe I had my usual roll with sausage and hash browns and orange juice before we headed back again. Most people were going over knockhill, given the weather I don’t blame them but I decided to Join Paul and Colin and head for Milnathort before going through Kelty and back home. This turned out to be a lot tougher than I was expecting. I was able to again take a shot at the front but now we were flying and I was at my limit leading. Even dropping behind Paul I was still getting hammered and no chance to rest and recover \ud83d\ude1f I was hoping that once we hit Milnathort we would calm down a bit and take it easy from there, I was wrong. With Paul leading I was at my limit again and just couldn’t keep up, at which point I had to take the lead and slow things down otherwise I would blow up and crawl home. So I took the lead off Paul before we hit Kelty and kept the pace at something I could handle to try and recover a bit. Thankfully once past Kelty I would swing off from the group and head home on my own at which point I could slow down and recover a bit more. So 50 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 17 mph but what a cost that was. My effort was 4.7 out of 5 which too high for being off the bike for so long, normal values would be around 2-3 with the occasional 4, there is only 1 ride out of the thousands that I have done over the last 13 years that has beaten this and that was the Ride London 2023 where I was trying to ride 100 miles in under 5 hours, that was a 5 out of 5 and given the effort I had put in I wasn’t surprised at the time \ud83d\ude05 <\/p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ride 08\/11\/2025 Today’s bunrun (a day belated since I’m writing this on Sunday) weather wise was wet, overcast but little wind. Quite a large group of us turned up, probably close to 30, don’t know why the weather was crap, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> <\/p> \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}