80 miles today, half of it in driving wind and half of it in driving snow - which seemed to wash the factor 50 of me.
Left my cousins house in Auchterarder in cold but beautiful sunshine... satnav took a wee flaky at the start but sorted itself out and off we went.
Craig joined us for the rolling hills of Perthshire for the first 10 miles until we crossed the A9 and headed up and up and up... it seemed to go on forever until we hit about 1,100 feet and levelled out (Phil lost another screw on his rack so his bungee came to the rescue before the drop to Stirling where another cyclist (Peter) kindly showed us the way to Stirling Albion.
Onto Alloa and across the new Kincardine bridge and a pit stop at McDonalds. Then onto Falkirk - Stenhousemuir - East Stirling, where we did a loop of these combined clubs as satnav got confused by this scenario.
Then s big push to Clyde where the snow blizzard started and didn't stop as we continued to Albion Rovers, Airdrie and finally at Motherwell.
It was so so bitterly cold... never cycled in those conditions in our lives before. It was gigantica snowflakia - I was really pleased with the satnav even having to wipe the snow of it every minute. Could hardly read the damn thing because of the steam and snow blocking my vision on my cycle specs.
We cracked on to Motherwell and followed up with a Montpellior (but you have to know us to know what that means)
Another McD's spotted and it was in to defrost with a hot cup of tea and an apple pie while still shaking with hyperthermia.
20 mins later we were down at our hotel for the night - the staff were most welcoming and the long session of drying everything ensued.
Hard hard day on the bikes. Left knee still giving me pain.
80 miles
26 Stadiums done
16 to go
forecast for next few days - sunshine & showers
Stenhousemuir & East Stirlingshire share this stadium.
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