on your bike....

Just back from a trip to the Alps, it ended being far more social than active but it was great to catch up with everyone.
As I'm off to do this cycle trip through Jordan I really needed to get on my bike and do a bit of training. Sunday I was off on the Burma Road, this is a track from Carrbridge to Aviemore. We did it anti clockwise, which as I was delighted about. The slog up from Aviemore more would have been very hard work, it is 5oom vertical height gain but it was great to come down... woosh. The Burma Road is apparently names after the one in Asia for it's pink colour. Nice trip and not too hard from the Carrbridge direction. The climb is the same but the gradient is gentler. There is some wonderful wild country out to the west there and some wonderful views of the Monadliath hills.
Monday I was back out on the bike, this time just south of Nairn. We decided to go exploring and just follow the trails on the map, shame the map was not much use. A couple of the tracks just disappeared after you had got gone a fair distance along them. They just fizzled out leaving you in boggy ground. The bikes then had to be carried up a hill, through gorse bushes, ouch. Anyone watching must have thought we were just mad. FINALLY we got back to the road, what a luxury after the bog I had just been through.