Sunday started with the garden getting a good hosing and the likelihood of getting a run today looking less likely than the Fit One winning a bus museum sprint!
And then the sun broke through and everything looked possible.
With no time to gather a posse, I headed out to conquer Col du Cleish and return by Mont Veknockhill. The Garmin was going to feed me all my data to sare with budding bloggers. Did you know the Townhill road has a gradient of 11% almost as steep as the mighty Ventoux. In future, I will pay more respect as I scoot up the 'brae'.
It is only beaten on today's run by Col du Cleish that matches Ventoux with a gut wrenching 12% as you crest the summit..Lance eat your heart out.
The pace along to the Powmill milkbar was a steady 19.9 mph into a feisty wee wind. And then the weather opted for a dose of precipitation as I climbed back over Mont Veknockhill.
As I had discarded much of Saturday's excesses, down to cycling shorts, ( wed did not get into shorts until June last year), it was a tad chilly.
After returning to Dunfie, another 41k was in the bag at an average speed of 27kph.
I will need to pick up the pace for the Caledonian Etape.
The start times have been published and I am delighted to got into the first hundred (out of 4500) to get away. It is going to be busy in the chasing pack!
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