After a few hard days training and team building in the Lake District, our next team ride was arranged to start at Stirling University. Before we could embark on our cycle however, we had our official photo shoot of the team. They seemed to think photos of us in Lycra would help raise (sympathy & therefore) more money! The thought of being ‘famous’ was enough to encourage Stuart Henderson away from his solo-cycling & to join a team ride for the 1st time.
Some of us are naturals in front of the lens, being surrounded with bluebells, sun and the stunning Stirling countryside (Pat and Aileen), and some of us, not so (the rest of us). You’ll all see the results of the shoot soon we’re sure.
Photo-shoot complete it was time to hit the rolling roads of Stirlingshire, and Perth and Kinross, for a 45mile run covering 2,073ft of climb, and after the mechanical mis-haps of Penrith we were hopeful of no incident…………………no such luck!
After picking Joe up from the middle of the road, we took a few minutes to gather ourselves & thank our lucky stars that Joe’s accident was no worse. Over the recent rides, we’ve become a very close team, all looking out for each other as we ride in a tight group. It’s a great feeling, but we’re also learning (sometimes the hard way) how risky this can be. It did really hit home the ‘challenge’ that lies ahead, not only the distance, and climb but the interaction between us and traffic, and each other on the roads.
Incident overcome the route really was a pleasure to be on, rolling hills, and cracking views, topped off with the great feeling of a downhill, wind assisted run to the finish, let hope for plenty of them to come!
Next team run…….yikes it’s the actual bike4forty ride!!!!!