{"id":5879,"date":"2025-12-27T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:06:42","slug":"ride-25-12-2025-xmas-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5879","title":{"rendered":"Ride 25\/12\/2025 Xmas ride"},"content":{"rendered":" <p> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/21348102991#.wordpress\">Ride 25\/12\/2025<\/a><\/em> <\/p> \n <p> I decided to ride to Kilsyth today particularly to cycle over Tak Ma Doon road (read big hill here \ud83d\ude0b), but in the reverse route that I would normally do which I haven&#8217;t done in quite some time. Given it&#8217;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 \ud83d\ude01 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&#8217;t stop for obvious reasons (nothing is open \ud83d\ude01) and did the 70 miles in one non-stop ride. It&#8217;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&#8217;t very fast but still 16.5 mph avg and that was fine with me \ud83d\ude00 <\/p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <p> Ride 25\/12\/2025 I decided to ride to Kilsyth today particularly to cycle over Tak Ma Doon road (read big hill here \ud83d\ude0b), but in the reverse route that I would normally do which I haven&#8217;t done in quite some time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5879","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\/5879","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=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}