Hills and technical glitches

Today was a long day where we clocked up 96 miles. That was not an intended distance, however our over reliance on technology was our downfall early on. Most of the cycling purists we meet all seem to ask what routes we are taking and how we are going to circumnavigate Einburgh. Our response is always, "garmin will solve that", to which we often get a short sharp intake of breath. Today garmin failed us and sent us wrong. We only ended up 3 miles off course as our hound dog noses smelt the impending doom and we quickly re-routed. There was a silver lining as we found a hill to clock up our new trip top speed of 42.5mph. Rapid!

We then got back on route and found a way of riding safely on the busy roadworks of the A9. Get in the work lane where as always no work ever gets done and those traffic cones are a waste of everybody's time. We managed to get ourselves up to about halfway before turning off the main roads and heading for a more direct route on the 'B' roads. What Garmin failed to notify us of was any contour lines or elevation!

2 seemingly never ending mountains later and some speedy descents and we were 20 miles from our destination through some amazing scenery to Auchterarder. When I say mountains I'm talking cat 5 climbs with at least a 20% gradient. It almost drove us to tears (Ed's for the second time).

When we eventuLly arrived we were greeted with a great B&B and super shower, but I won't give too much away for you fanatics just yet! Dinner was in a great little pub with some superb banoffee pie all round.

Bedtime is now at 8:30 as the weary legs are taking over. No duvet for Ed though as he's on the camp bed for his 2 stacks today, one whilst stationary, comedy, if only there was video evidence!

Review for tonight's B&B up tomorrow!

Stay safe and let's hope there's no riots in Edinburgh tomorrow, well no more than your average Weds night in Scotland.