What a difference a day makes! Think ive said that before, ho hum! A cracking nights sleep and then the usual athlete's breakfast, with added Haggis and Smiley faces potato! We checked the route and the weather forecast as normal, today's ride was 71 miles heading west then north west. The wind was strong but coming from the east, therefore wind behind. After coming round from fainting, we went on our way, after a little spoke tensioning on my wheel. So, the road beckoned. Well, we were flying, the first hour we did 17.2 miles and got to Dumfries in an hour and a half (26 miles). We decided to keep going. The scenery was very pleasant, we have been spoilt the last few days. We took a right turn and noticed quite a few cyclists, it turned out that we had barged our way onto a sportive route! We followed our and there route and came to a hill called "Dangerous Hill" Seeing other cyclists and that hill for martin is like showing me a curry or a red cape to a bull!!! So off he sped to try and "scalp" a few of the serious cyclists in their race! So a few miles down the road he was waiting and we left their race route. We thought we would stop at Drumlanrig castle for a late lunch. As luck would have it, it was the start and finish of the pre mentioned race, so as we looked like cyclists, we thought we would barge in the after race free food station and fill our faces, well it would be rude not too!! So after filing the nosebag, on our way for the last 23 miles. Pretty uneventful really, was just really nice to have the wind behind. We found our B&B which is called the Old School. It really is cracking and the owners are very helpful. So, tomorrow day 10 and a ferry ride! Cant wait.
PS.... We are singing loads as we ride and with these song blog titles, i am making a playlist for all the songs that we have sang or has meant something to us, im looking forward to doing this very much.
Cheeerrrriooooo now
PS.... We are singing loads as we ride and with these song blog titles, i am making a playlist for all the songs that we have sang or has meant something to us, im looking forward to doing this very much.
Cheeerrrriooooo now