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Edinburgh got to 27C at 2pm ...
It was 30C in Kelso at 4pm. So further south it must have been hotter
England : Cumbria Scottish Borders run - 26th July 2014
- Thread starter MikeW-71
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It was 30C in Kelso at 4pm. So further south it must have been hotter
tug benson
Survived the Tour O the borders 2013
- Location
- Alloa
Aviemore hit 29C on Friday..CrazyIt was 30C in Kelso at 4pm. So further south it must have been hotter
ShooglyDougie
Guru
- Location
- Gore Glen
A great day out in great company. Thanks to @MikeW-71 for organising, was a nice route with some very nice hills (I think I may have blinked and missed the 15% bit, I can't remember going up it). The weather was a bit hot (not hot enough for a lady to stand at the side of the road to tell you its melting though.) then a bit windy which made it a bit more interesting, but couldn't take away from the views and the banter.
Harry_Palmer79
Guru
- Location
- Wet coast of Scotland
Well, I am absolutely wiped out today but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.... The first 30km or so climbed gradually and were fairly cool compared to the heat that was to come; a couple of fun descents and short digs later and we were at the cafe stop in Newcastleton for a very welcome sausage and tattie scone roll 
(curiously no one ordered a cake, perhaps the heat was beginning to take effect?!) The first part of the climb out of Newcastleton was short and sharp (@Edwardoka wanted a bit extra hill training so went back down to do it again 
) A long slow drag to the top followed which seemed to go gradually up and down for aeons; though as always what goes up must come down and a speedy descent was the reward before the next climb and the long descent into Langholm. On arrival, water bottles were filled and heads were cooled before we posed for a pic' with the glamorous backdrop of the Langholm public toilets! 
The last part had a couple of testing climbs but what really made it really tough was the leg sapping wind for the last ten miles or so... overall it was a great ride and I was glad to make it to the end reasonably comfortably as I've never completed a ride of over 100km in one go before (save for some pretty angry sunburn on my legs, I now have tan, okay burn, lines on my legs for the first time!)
Huge thanks to @MikeW-71 for organising, @GBC for kindly transporting me and Ed to and fro and of course to all for your great company... looking forward to next month's trip even more now!
(curiously no one ordered a cake, perhaps the heat was beginning to take effect?!) The first part of the climb out of Newcastleton was short and sharp (@Edwardoka wanted a bit extra hill training so went back down to do it again ) A long slow drag to the top followed which seemed to go gradually up and down for aeons; though as always what goes up must come down and a speedy descent was the reward before the next climb and the long descent into Langholm. On arrival, water bottles were filled and heads were cooled before we posed for a pic' with the glamorous backdrop of the Langholm public toilets! The last part had a couple of testing climbs but what really made it really tough was the leg sapping wind for the last ten miles or so... overall it was a great ride and I was glad to make it to the end reasonably comfortably as I've never completed a ride of over 100km in one go before (save for some pretty angry sunburn on my legs, I now have tan, okay burn, lines on my legs for the first time!)Huge thanks to @MikeW-71 for organising, @GBC for kindly transporting me and Ed to and fro and of course to all for your great company... looking forward to next month's trip even more now!
@Edwardoka wanted a bit extra hill training so went back down to do it again
In my defence I thought that the big climb was 4 miles outside of Newcastleton rather than a 4 mile climb out of Newcastleton, and as such I had been psyching myself up for a big climb ahead (during the big climb) , when I learned at the cattle grid that the worst of it was over I decided to go back and redo it in one go.
Louch
105% knowledge on 105
- Location
- Kingdom of Kinnard
He's doing one 30th August
Harry_Palmer79
Guru
- Location
- Wet coast of Scotland
He's doing one 30th August
Yep... I'm certainly feeling a bit more confident about being able to do the distance, though I still have a few doubts tbh
Louch
105% knowledge on 105
- Location
- Kingdom of Kinnard
You will be fine.
Harry_Palmer79
Guru
- Location
- Wet coast of Scotland
A few miscellaneous pics from Saturday
(Apologies I didn't get more, I think Mike has a couple too...)
(Apologies I didn't get more, I think Mike has a couple too...)
Arrghhhhhhrargharhgrahgrghrahghrraghrgh I didn't ride back far enough to trigger the segment matching on the big climb
Oh well, as the Bard used to say, "The best laid plans of mice and men........"
The Bard never rode up that hill twice only for it to not count because the start line was 30 yards further down the pan flat road
No, but he could foresee that some (derogatory term of choice) would
