Sunday after getting some stuff done in the morning then watching the tour of Flanders I headed out on the Merckx for a while, nice evening but again just beat the rain back. Good to be back out on the Merckx and getting a few quicker miles in.
Then on Monday around lunch I headed south to meet up with Brian and have a ride out around the Beauly Forth. Glorious sunshine when I left but about an hour or so down the road it was a solid wall of grey with it snowing to the west. the hills were getting covered the closer I got to Brians. We quickly loaded and decided to start around Redcastle area as everywhere else was whitening up and thought we would ride into Ness. We pushed on into the mother of all headwinds, and after a quick stop at a bakery to have a sandwich and a coffee we decided on a ride back the way we came but at a much faster pace due to the freezing rain coming down. Still we got a ride in, albeit a shortish one. This time I was on the Mercian and Brian was on his Bertin, so even the rain couldn't spoil a ride on these.
Unfortunately it wasn't as nice on the other side of the mountains
So not a bad weekend, 3 different rides out on three different machines, time spent with family and with friends, this topped off with a Quick Step win in Flanders. Roll on spring now
Jamie
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