Ayr Roads Cycling Club is one of the few still with a club hut..and today was the annual first footing! It used to be used as a summer headquarters, with people staying there overnight to be able to go further afield than they could in one day..like a bothy.
It has a fire and a stove..and a log book!
Great to see those who could make it..some by car, others carefully by bike..some roads had ice where water had been running over roads.
In the centre is Dr. Tom and his wife Mhairi. He used to be the radio doctor in Scotland on a morning programme and was also race doctor for many races that Pirate organised.
They live just over the burn that the hut backs onto.
They are learning Gaelic on Duolingo too, despite being originally from Gaelic speaking areas...but the schools system knocked it out of many people... sometimes literally..and they moved away as their parents followed work and in turn their work kept them away.
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