{"id":5975,"date":"2026-08-16T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:55:29","slug":"ride-16-08-2026-aug-randonee-dundee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5975","title":{"rendered":"Ride 16\/08\/2026 Aug Randonee (Dundee)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ride 16\/08\/2026 Aug Randonee (Dundee)<\/a><\/em> <\/p> \n

Just me on the Aug Randonne again and I make this ride harder than it need be by walking out the house and leaving all my energy gel at home before I even started the ride. \ud83d\ude44 The start of the ride was at the Tay bridge, near Tayport. You can park your car there and then cross the bride using the cycle path on the bridge \ud83d\ude42 Due to my idiot move of leaving all my energy gel I would have to ride this one slowly and carefully so as not to run out of energy, which is why this ride is a slow one by comparison. My first cafe stop would be in Cafe 88\u00b0 at Kirriemuir, some 35 miles in, but to get their I had to contend with the rain and wet roads \ud83d\ude41 I at least brought my wet gear and the rain was light so I did stay dry, and after about an hour the rain stopped and things dried out. It was a bit chilly to start with but things did warm up after the rain stopped and although it was mostly cloudy I did get some sunny spells here and there. At the first cafe stop I had coffee and cake before heading on towards the second cafe stop at Wee Coffee shop Blairgowrie and Rattray which would be at 65 miles in. Unfortunately for me when I got their the cafe was shut, totally my fault for not checking to see if it opens on a Sunday, it does not \ud83d\ude15 I couldn’t afford not to eat at this point, I needed the fuel so luckily for me the local Co-op was just down the road where I picked up a sandwich, fanta, crisps and Snickers bar to get me back to the car. Thankfully this isn’t a particularly hilly route although it did have 5500 feet of climbing, it’s a “lumpy” route with no big climbs in it and heading South towards the Tay river was mostly downhill \ud83d\ude42 and then I follow the river towards Dundee which is flat. When I was crossing the Tay bridge again it was packed with people doing the Dundee Kiltwalk which made it a very slow crossing back to the car. Kudos to the people who managed to do the full 20 miles walk, that’s a long bloody walk \ud83d\ude32 Anyway when I got back to the car I had clocked up 95 miles so I decided to bump it up to 100 with a quick jaunt down to Tayport town centre and back again \ud83d\udc4d So, 100 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 14 mph, and all that on coffee, cake, sandwiches and crisps with a little chocolate \ud83d\ude01 <\/p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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