For my own personal ITT challenge I intend to have a go at the route starting about 8 or 9 am (tbc) on the Saturday morning of the 4th May.
As said, this is for my own personal challenge but it would be great if anyone else was thinking of having a go at it around the same sort of time for us to start together and then carry on in the spirit of an ITT.
I'm not planning on organizing anything of any sort. This post is more of a 'if you call it, you have to do it' which is a quote from jameso from a report on his tour divide (I t think someone said it to him when he said he was going to ride it... its stuck with me for some reason).
The Cairngorm loop holds great memories for me. Before the ITT was formed I tried to ride something resembling the outerloop in late december, but was delayed hugely by ice and snow. After a short night in a bothy in the woods outside feshiebridge (yep, took me circa 10 hours to get there from Blair Athol) I bailed back to kingussie and got the train back. Nearly froze that night
Successfully toured the outer loop over 3 days with a couple of pals, drank a lot of whiskey, got sunburn on day 1, snowed into my tent in the lin of dee on day 3. Good times.
The third time was an attempt current route but I bottled the winter conditions on the inner loop and reverted to touring the outer and had a bloody great time.
Anyway, I enjoy the route and look forward to challenging myself to getting round within the 56 hr limit. I dont expect to break any records but intend to get round as fast as I can,
See you there?
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