A beautiful day for a bike ride which made a nice change so I made the most of it and had an absolute blast on amazing roads! The wind wasn't howling also which was also very welcome, it was a direct sourtherly around 20mph so I made my way south down into the Clyde Valley at Crossford! I continued along the valley to Kirkfieldbank where I joined the back road to Brocketsbrae (a proper Scottish name
) and started up the big climb, part way up I stopped for a couple of photos!
The view across the valley with Lanark in the background!
Soon after came the next steep part!
The view from a little further up the climb!
After passing through Brocketsbrae I joined the cycle path south towards Uddington where it was time to turn north and enjoy a nice tailwind at last, with a big climb up to Rigside ahead the tailwind was most welcome!
I had some nice views across the valley at Rigside!
More climbing to come and then some awesome descents!
The amazing A70 road to Lanark, its just incredible and when you have a tailwind its even more fun!
This view was looking east with Tinto Hill looking stunning today!
The views to the west weren't too shabby either!
Still on the A70, another awesome descent before yet another climb!
The River Clyde!
Then I had this cracking descent down to Hyndford Bridge, a cyclist was making his way up the climb on the cycle path!
I crossed the bridge and started up the climb towards Lanark but I turned off near the top and took the road to Carstairs to avoid the busy town on Friday afternoon! I stopped for some photos of Tinto Hill and the Pentland Hills on my way!
Another amazing road!
From Carstairs I continued north on the back road to Yieldshields, passing the Alpacas again!
At Yieldshields I joined the back road to Carluke and on to Allanton, then up the climb to Hareshaw where I caught the sun just as it was going down!
Then it was over the back roads to home just before darkness fell, only 46 miles now to hit my 7000 target! I passed 43000 miles today on my amazing bike, if I can do 7000 again next year I will make it to 50000! How awesome would that be? I'm not counting my chickens though...
I may want to visit the totally rebuilt Warsaw West railway station, too.
