Year Round Commuter, Cyclist and Adventure Seeker.

Today we travelled nearly 500 miles from our home in South West Scotland to our overnight stay in Ashford, some 20 miles from Folkstone. Armed with Scott's new bike we planned a few hours to see their new home in Hinckley, meet the new dog and grab some lunch. Left home at 830 am and after a couple stops arrived in Hinckley at 230pm. Enjoyed a good catch up then went for an Indian buffet with the girls and Scott and Karyn, before chilling in the sun before heading back off. We left Hinckley at 530pm via M1, M25 then onto route towards Folkstone. Forgot the bloody Grand Prix was on so a very long 4 hr drive ensued........ Start stop for well over 100 miles. Anyway got here at 930pm. Quick light bite and hyper kids to bed. - up sharp mora. Euro tunnel then drive towards the Netherlands. Gulp.

Well on the dawn of a major road trip to our cousins in the town of Soest near Amsterdam. leave our home in South West Scotland, mora 8am, via Hinckley for lunch with the Reilly's and deliver Scott's new bike 2 weeks prior to the London to Brighton night cycle. Just finished packing, the addresses are in the Sat Nav, will be an early night. - looking forward to it. Off for 16 days - Wooohooo

On Tuesday Myself and Neil did the 3rd of the 7 Stanes at Ae Forest . We arrived at around Noon and grabbed a quick coffee, then got the bikes read and headed out.   We did - Larch-View-Route Ae-Line-Trail The-Shredder Ae-Downhill Finishing at around 5pm, lets just say I was knackered. - We covered more than 29 miles, mostly up bloody hill lol  Went over the handlebars and fell sideways but nothing more than a bruised ego. lol. Even McMillian Fell ... A fantastic day out, but I was sore as hell on Wednesday !    

Looking for a .gpx cycle file that takes in most of Londons central tourist routes, passing on a bike, main roads fine. can any 1 help? - to load onto the devices 

Mental 7 days ahead. Just finished my WE on, and off tues, should be aff for 2 but working wed as a wedding on thurs. Heading to Ae Forrest on MTB as I missed it week Sat back. -Thurs we have a good pal wedding to attend. Help her celebrate her special day and a rare catch up with a fine group of people I used to work with back at Focus DIY. Need to work fri, visit, so after staying at the hotel Ill prob have a hang over lol. - Then work Sat, pack then over Sun and Mon an 800 Mile drive to our relations near Amsterdam. - For a weeks hol. Cars been serviced. Only need the cycle carrier for the roof rack. Sort that wed, pack, wedding, 2 days work, then off for 16 days.   CANNOT FUCKIN WAIT !

Have a guess what I'm going to blog about.... Yes more cycling. Yesterday we went to Glentrool to do our 2nd of the 7 Stanes. Picked Neil up at Ayr railway station just before 9am and headed down.. Got there just after 1030am.... 1. Visitor Centre shut until further notice. 2. 2 cars in Car Park. We did the blue route, only 7 miles, last few miles were nice but after Glentress last week we both agreed we were left rather at an Anti Climax... - After we went a dauner.... me leading. Ended up in Newton Stewart. By time we got back to Glentrool we did 27 miles. After that we went to Ayr for a few beers and an early night for me... - Sunday I was up bright eyed and bushy tailed. Headed to Ayr, not knowing where to go on old faithful. Headed up the coast towards Irvine, and thought fuck it, Im going to Paisley, via the cycle path for Lochwinnoch. It was a nice sunny day, and its quite a nice run. - After getting to Paisley I was feeling the heat, out via Barrhead, and back to the A...

Spent Sunday and Monday there this week as per introduction in last post. Sun done around 20 miles, exploring green route couple times then the blue route twice. We were staying in the Wigwams, which are attached to Glentress. Finished our run around half 6, then after a freshen up went into Peebles for a beer and some food. Wasn't a late night, so following morning I was up well before 8 and cycled into Peebles to collect car. After breakfast at the Glentress cafe we decided to tackle the red route. This was the highlight of the day, especially at the summit at Spooky Woods. After a hard climb, an fantastic return downward journey. The weather was fantastic on Sunday. The sun was shining and glentress was filled to the gunnels. - Monday different story. Cloudy but very warm and place very quiet, which we found actually a lot better. Left Glentress around 3pm. I dropped Neil off then on way home did a quick bolt around Whitelee Wind farm, well as I had never been before. Excellent...

So here for today and all day mon to learn some basic mountain biking. Arrived here around 11am and set off up to the buzzard car park to do the green route and then the skills corner lol. There is 9 year olds with more self confidence than me. Lol Then done blue route. Staying in 1 of the wigwams attached to the Glentress centre. - the sun is shinning and beer in the fridge. Life does not get better than this. Checked in at lodge. Then going back oot !