Monday, 21 June 2010
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
My first 100 mile day
I am please to say I've just return from a great weekends cycling in the highlands of Scotland with Jim. We entered the diageo 100 mile challenge from Dalwhinnie to Elgin. It was a beautiful sunny day as we arrive early on Saturday morning at the Dalwhinnie distillery to sign in a get our route details and meet a few other cyclists. Setting of a 9am we enjoyed a very scenic cycle through beautiful highland countryside passing through villages and towns such as Newton-more,Aviemore Grantown-on-Spey,Cardhu, Dallas, Forres, Duffus and Elgin. Over mores, through forests and long the river side with plenty of opportunity to stop and enjoy the countryside. Arrived in Elgin about 4 45 for a BBQ and a couple of well earned bottles of cold beer. Then a quick shower at the B&B and out for a couple more beers,Elgin is a great town to walk around and enjoy the pubs bars and restaurants.
An early night ready for the 6am start to the return journey. We set of at 7am heading out in the rain very different from the previous day. The rain got stronger until we where cycling in streams of water, our speed slower than yesterday as we left forres heading up over the Dava more. Very quite roads let us cycle side by side which was great, lots of chat and banter helped grind out the miles in the pouring rain. Stopped in Carrbridge at a very friendly CTC listed cafe for scrambled eggs and coffee. The staff didn't mind the fact that we where soaking wet. A change of cloths and on our way to Aviemore then linked up with cycle route 7 the rest of the way to Dalwhinnie. Total miles 172 total time 11hour 30 mins. A great weekend and a good confidence boost for lejog.
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