Ride Report: Rivers, Lochs and Glens Audax from Gourock (Sunday 13th April)

I’ve never done a ride report before… Anyway, I’ve got quite into these ‘Audax’ events – road riding events between 100 and 1400km.  Like a sportive, but much cheaper, no feed stations, from a village hall, and with less MAMILs.  Gerry, Simon and I rode one the previous week in the borders.  Gerry wasn’t up for this one, and Simon (a veteran of such events) was planning to…

Waking up on Sunday morning, the wind was howling. Great.  But at least it was dry as I got into the car.  As I drove off, I replaced Radio 4 and Radio Scotland’s religious output with some music.  But what is the music for Audax?  I tried DFA 1979 – but it just wasn’t right – more enduro I reckon… Mogwai – now that’s Audax music.  After a while, I switched back to the radio.  Just in time for the Audax Forecast.  Here is the transcript, word for word…. Continue reading