Pitlochry, Stonehaven,Glen Clova & Ardler - September 2015

Hopefully back up and running, or should that be cycling, with new a MacBook Air after my iMac gave up the ghost.

We have been fortunate with good weather on the Sunday runs  and we have had Tom from Alyth join us along with Chris from Kirrie who had seen the publication of the runs list with the cycling festival prompting him to come along.  Though the addition of the 10 o'clock short runs did not have the desired effect of getting potential new members out there were two well attended runs so not a complete loss.

The new runs list has been published and deliberately kept short to attempt to encourage more people out.

September is generally a good month and we try to put on a couple of longer runs, this year Pitlochry,  glorious day and well attended with six members heading ff in the sun, I turned back to take the short run but as nobody turned up did the route in reverse to meet up with David and Charlie and get n a good 95 miles.  

Stonehaven the following Sunday saw four of us, David, Gus, Charlie and I  head for Brechin, Montrose and the coastal road as far as Inverbervie where we had a wee stop at the catering van before turning inland past the Grassick Gibbon Centre a road on which neither Gus or I had been on before, Charlie led the way along some interesting back roads on the way to Little Brechin, from Careston we got a draft from a JCB, 8 miles at 22 miles an hour was grand the a relaxing run into Forfar.

Glen Clova saw both the long and short group meet at the hotel where we always get a great lunch  I took the short run group up, five of us headed up to Ron and Pat's where Derek headed to the Bthy to meet with Ron and go to the Tav for lunch, Raymond headed for home leaving Norman and I to continue to Clova where we met with the long group who had been round Prosen first and took Chris for his first outing, on the way back a wee group of us were dehydrated so stopped in one of our favorite watering holes - The Drovers  before rolling down the road to Forfar.

The last run of the month was another rendezvous ride to the Tav in Ardler with both groups again meeting for lunch, this time sitting out in the sunshine enjoying free scones and butter courtesy of big Jim's kitchen with good bowls of soup and fine pints of beer before we headed back to Forfar via the Bogside Road with Chris turning up to Kirrie.