91 miles done
1 hour & 15 mins less than yesterday
3/4 hills of 400/500 feet
Sunshine & blue sky
A75 most of way
Old School house near CD for lunch
So... breakfast done and on bikes for 0815 but spent the next 15 mins continuously rebooting satnav to get the fecker to work but no joy. If this had happened yesterday we would have been fooked.
Executive decision - forget satnav and crack on.
A75 to Dumfries quickly found and 10 miles down the road I give the satnav one last reboot and low and behold it kicks into life. (I will be having words with Garmin btw). Today didn't matter so much as most of the route was on the A75. This was the one road in the cycle that I was not looking forward to - in reality it turned out to be one of the best roads as
(A) it wasn't busy
(B) there was a smooth tarmac outside of main road
(C) some cycle lanes
(D) we made good time
Heads down and nearly 45 miles in food was on our mind - was it Gatehouse of Fleet or not. Not was the answer. Castle Douglas the goal but then the Old School house cafe appeared and we pulled in. I think I faired better than Phil in the amount of soup that was delivered. However Phil made them aware of the portion delivered but no joy. Time to move on.
A few testing hills past CD and we were in Dumfries and pics taken at QOS with Paul Burns who scored in the cup semi final against Aberdeen in 2008.
16 mile flat run to Annan much to Phils delight and mine with the wind behind us was brilliant.
Its funny you can complete over 91 miles in 1 hour and 15 minutes earlier when the weather is better.
So much better getting in an hour earlier...makes such a difference.
so... 91 miles done
over an hour less in the saddle
Still pain in arse
still pain in left knee but ibruprofen doing a job
sunshine :-)
Another 2 clubs done
big push for Berwick tomorrow
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