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This week was no ordinary week…

It also involved A LOT of hours on the road and the mountain bike! However, I was joined by some quite astonishingly good weather for January in Scotland!

Take a look, this was Monday's ride... there is even a shooting start in the left hand corner:

HA, made you look! That's a plane, silly :P 

The next two rides weren't that exciting, but this was:

Yum, apple crumble made by me! Watch out Mary Berry (for you folks that don't know it's the woman off Great British bake off) ;)

It was then time to burn that all off and head out again on the road. It was a beautiful day and I just couldn't help myself the views on this ride were AAA-mazing:

On my way to st. Mary's loch…

Said loch:

It was then up the hill to Talla (a well know VERY steep hill in the area) here is the view from the top:

Luckily I had my sensible head on and didn't go tearing down the steep side because, well, look:

Could have been the end of me! Once at the bottom the sun was shining and the water was SO still it was like glass! I couldn't resist another photo:

Look!! There is a hill in the water! :O

Next was a mountain bike ride up Glentress. Now, after all this ridiculous wind (AKA hurricane bawbag) we've been having it was a shock when I quickly snapped these photo's that 1. There was no wind AT ALL and 2. It was actually silent. No sound at all, no birds no people, no traffic, no nothing! I was slightly eerie:

This was on the black climb, time to keep climbing...

(so many people take photo's of this view but it is so lovely!)

And finally today, manage to survive another long road ride! 

Homeward bound...

... to the Valley in which I live:

Ah so nice but SO COLD today!

So that was it! It has been a hard week of training but I couldn't ask to do it in a better place - road rides with beautiful scenery and an awesome selection of mountain bike trails with equal beauty right on my door step… So lucky! :)
Keep riding people!

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