Training Log Archive: graeme

Day 2 of the alternative five ferries. Tarbert -F- Portavadiie - James - Colintrave- F - NE Bute- Rothesay- serpentine - F- Wemyss Bay- Gourock.

Very lovely countryside and route across the Cowal and Bute

Timing and mileage from googlemaps and made up by Jane as too stop-starty for the Garmin to cope. Set off at 9:30, Back at the car at 5:30.

Round the block at home until teh squeaking stopped, to distribute some oil on the soaked bike.

Greenock park run, which is fast flat tarmac. Expected a modern era pb, and fully delivered. Good start to the day.

"Social bikes" 5 ferries. An amended route after the Arran ferry drove into a pier, still featuring two ferries


From Gourock -F-Dunoon-Ardtaraig-Otter Ferry- Millhouse- Portavadie-F-N of Tarbert glamping.

Thanks to the park run, with Jane & Graham Mc set off an hour after the others. Weather was quite iffy, but knocked off 14 in a first brisk hour before we caught them. At this point it was wet and a bit miserable, still in the realms of type 2 fun.

Then, a freezing slow death-grind over to Otter Ferry as it properly p"ssed it down.

"At Otter Ferry, there's not a ferry, but there's a pub, to serve you grub"

Also - no otters. The name is an Anglicisation of oitir, the Gaelic word for sandbank.

In an effort to generate some heat, jane and I snuck off the front and stopped for coffee by the fire at the Oyster Catcher. Turned out the "social" thing to do was hunker down in a cave and eat sandwiches which we hadn't made - who knew? After the trogs set off, someone came to "rescue" us from the warmth. We soon caught up the straggling procession, at the head just in time for an unscheduled coffee stop, with jane nobly spending half an hour in the icy rain directing traffic to the new destination.

Then down to the wonderfully heated waiting room for the Tarbert ferry, Tarbert, shopping for dinner, and up the hill to the really nice glampsite and Tarbert Holiday Park.

in & out

Roslin loop testing the rhinowalk.

C • Whats 6

In out control hanging and collecting at sprintelope.

4.3

Meadows 4.26 19 20 19 16.
Running with Someone called Alan. Lazy on the first one, conned by a slow moving Graham Mac. Probably shouldn't have had so much left at the end though it didn't feel easy

Meadows there round and back

In & out

Ozark 4.2

Around Craigmillar sprintelope checking