iain couttie

Lovely to be back at Bagel Basket. Not lost my wheelsucking skills so ta to Davie B for tow up Brisbane Glen & to Ian Couttie for tow up the Whin. Nice to meet new members Peter Alan & Paul. Roll on next week

Graham currently in lead must be all the years I have spent telling him to read the instructions!

mental pace is right,good wake up call for the legs, only three strong brave riders managed the whole ride, me Eric and a mental french guy i think he got a bit bored with the pace after the proper cyclists left. nice lad but i couldn't talk much as i was doing a gasping fish sort of thing most of the time. will be stronger next week.

mental pace is right,good wake up call for the legs, only three strong brave riders managed the whole ride, me Eric and a mental french guy i think he got a bit bored with the pace after the proper cyclists left. nice lad but i couldn't talk much as i was doing a gasping fish sort of thing most of the time. will be stronger next week.

mental pace is right,good wake up call for the legs, only three strong brave riders managed the whole ride, me Eric and a mental french guy i think he got a bit bored with the pace after the proper cyclists left. nice lad but i couldn't talk much as i was doing a gasping fish sort of thing most of the time. will be stronger next week.

Seems I managed to delete this thread which is a talent in itself. Any way smashing ride yo Eglington Park 49 + miles for me. 😄😄🚴ðŸ»ðŸš´ðŸ». Cheers guys & hoping for more of same next week

Club room for me

not quite true, some idiot went to the george town!! and wondered where everyone was, rode a solo very windy.

Well, faster than I was at Invergordon, but a lot slower than I was looking for. 62:04, which is 18 seconds slower than my PB. Very warm day, a light easterly. Cramped up twice in the last 5, maybe cost me a PB, but still not as fast as I wanted to be.

Right Guys changing the route for this run
So now 0800 start Clubrooms Erskine Bridge , Helensburgh Glen Fruin Arrochar Rest and be thankful ( military road) Hells Glen Dunoon and back via Ferry

I'll haud up

The forecast was light rain, with a gentle southwesterly. The actual conditions were dry, with a gentle southwesterly, and cool, without being warm. I've just come off a hard training block, and was feeling tired, my activation session yesterday was awful, and I wasn't feeling good at all going into this.
I got to the turn in just under 37 minutes, blew up at 14.5 miles, took recovery until 16, then pushed it up as hard as I could over the last 8. My time?
65:47. That's a huge 3:30 faster than last year. A little slower than I hoped, but I'll take it just the same.

had a nice solo run to largs and fairly moor, 

Great reports guys looking forward to your company on start line next year

Racing at Invergordon. First 25 of the year.

Well, you all say never again, but you never know. I said that the first time I rode it and I've now ridden it three times. It may say something about me right enough, but cycling is like that, full of mental exploits where the memory of the pain diminishes with time. It's a bit like one imagines giving birth is like; if women stuck to their initial reactions no family would have more than one child!
 
And besides, Charlie has his ride postponed until next year and we couldn't let him ride it by his self, could we?

I asked the same thing, but told only need a towel (and perhaps pillow for comfort). That was from David C though. I can picture him chuckling whilst cosey in his sleeping bag with me shivering under my towel...

Tough wee day in that wind with a few good climbs thrown in . Coutts forgot to mention the mountain bike had an engine in it

First club run of the year, thanks to mr mcginty for his patience, well until a mountain bike beat him up the old Largs road, his ego got a bit of a bashing. I think the panniers were the last straw.

First club run of the year, thanks to mr mcginty for his patience, well until a mountain bike beat him up the old Largs road, his ego got a bit of a bashing. I think the panniers were the last straw.

Martin, just went round to Gourock, the Cut, Loch Thom, then Whin. It was a bit wet!!

Good run weather not to bad, lasted to the bridge , so quite happy. Bill and Ben managed to scramble a prize giving together. We'll done to all trophy winners.

Good run weather not to bad, lasted to the bridge , so quite happy. Bill and Ben managed to scramble a prize giving together. We'll done to all trophy winners.

Good run weather not to bad, lasted to the bridge , so quite happy. Bill and Ben managed to scramble a prize giving together. We'll done to all trophy winners.

Good run weather not to bad, lasted to the bridge , so quite happy. Bill and Ben managed to scramble a prize giving together. We'll done to all trophy winners.