{"id":5917,"date":"2026-05-16T18:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:51:22","slug":"ride-16-05-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5917","title":{"rendered":"Ride 16\/05\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ride 16\/05\/2026<\/a><\/em> <\/p> \n

Todays ride was a different one to the norm, I decided to join some of the boys doing a 100 mile ride around Loch Earn. Weather wise it was cold to start with, so I was wrapped up today and thankful for it. It did eventually warm up a bit as the sun came out and the wind was calm, so overall it was actually a good day to do the ride on. 9 of us turned up to do the ride with the route going over Knockhill and through Glendevon to Gleneagles before heading north to Crieff where we had our first cafe stop. A cup of coffee and fried egg roll later we were back on the road heading to Comrie and Loch Earn. It was from about here that I was at the head of the group leading in single file, the road can be busy and it’s a main 50 mph road all the way to Callendar. Thankfully I wasn’t going fast so I could ride all the way to Callendar without stopping or someone else taking a turn. At Callendar we had our second cafe stop, again glad for that I had ridden 70 miles at this point on nothing more than egg roll, breakfast and energy gel, so some good food was required. I had the soup, cake and coke to top me up before we carried on, this time not me leading, I must have clocked up 20 miles in the front by this point \ud83d\ude09 From here we cycled the quieter roads back to Stirling were some of the guys stopped for ice cream, I was feeling fine so I didn’t bother. From here it was the usual roads to Alloa, Clackmannan, Kincardine and the coastal road back to Dunfermline. Basically this was a 4 hours of zone 2 and two hours of zone 1, so it was a very pleasant ride for the day. 115 miles clocked up at an avg speed of just over 16 mph, not too shabby for the first 100 miler of the year \ud83d\ude01 <\/p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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