Birthday trip

 Last weekend we went to Perthshire. Saturday we rode around the course as neither of us knew it.

It is beautiful there, and the time trial course goes around Loch Leven.

It used to go right through the town of Kinross and make a complete circuit...but with busy roads and all sorts of road furniture..now it starts at the Southern side and finishes as it comes in on the Northern side. 12.2 miles or about 20km.

In the shot above, at the third left turn on the course you look down over fields of oats...then fields of turf..then a gliding school before the first small village.

Pirate rode tandem with a friend. It was the first time on the back of a tandem for him, despite having piloted tandems for many years!

It was a race to remember Sandy Wallace from Fife and hopefully will be an annual event.

The start!! There were four tandems and 94 solo riders...a well run event by a first time organiser..and with help he did a marvellous job!! Hopefully there will be more next year.

The sun shone...after the previous night's thunder, lighting and heavy rain!!

Barley in the wind

Still mates!!

After the presentation we went to watch the British Elite road championship race on TV with our Fife friend. With tea and my birthday cake... chocolate of course!!...then first class chips form a chip shop on the way home.

The best of days.