Long Distance Cycling Ordinary People

55 / 13 degrees, light winds, sunny cloudy for our trip to Pitlochry today.  Killin was a nice quiet place, plenty of hills (mountains?) for climbing, the river and a pub.  Would be nice to come back to in a caravan. This is the fourth day in this second to last section of the trip.  A bit sore today from pedalling 4.5 miles hard up to the top of Glen Ogle yesterday.  Trying to go uphill faster is a silly thing to do, gets you what?  No faster and sore legs!   Spent yesterday just admiring the views.  We were lucky that for the majority of the day the hills were visible and not hidden by clouds and mist.  The rainbows were an unexpected treat. We’re eating less, we’ll see if that lasts as we move into the Highlands.  Yesterday was a not very large breakfast (Full English because that’s the only option w/ protein), a couple meat cheese roll ups w/ half a banana and an afternoon lunch of a shared Scottish tapas & venison burgers.  Went...

Enjoyed the Jazz Fest last night, would have liked to stay for more, but time to move on.  A second short day this week, 21.4 miles today.  Going from the jazzy town of Callander to Killin, and the Falls of Dochart .  There’s one 1000 foot climb in there over Glen Ogle, but otherwise fairly flat or undulating.  Windy and wet today, 55 / 13 degrees, gusts up to 40mph.  More beautiful scenery expected, will be happy if we get some views! We headed out of Callander and immediately encountered a flood.  I would have liked to get a photo of it, but there are some things you don’t do while pedalling through high water.  We didn’t dunk our entire feet, but Steve’s were dipping in and out as we pedalled slowly through.  Not long after that there was sunshine.  I took a picture so we would have proof! We had great rail trails for the majority of the day, mostly through a forest, by either a river or a loch.  A few tracks, some gravely or stony, a...