Sat, Jul 2, 2011 - 28.77 mi [Cycling] Carnoustie Tayport Loop

Sat, Jul 2, 2011 - 28.77 mi [Cycling]
28.77 mi in 02:05:15 hours at 13.78 mi/h on Pinnacle Hybrid. [Cycling] Well it was a beautiful morning so I was off down the N1 cyclepath again and this time the Tay Bridge crossing was my aim. I had my camera and decided I should add this bridge crossing to my Youtube collection !!!

Anyway my timing was perfection as I caught the river Tay at slack water and it was a magnificent ripple free mirror and I took lots of pics before a fast ride over the Tay bridge to tayport followd by an even faster ride back across it reaching a max of 28.5 mph. Back along the cyclepath to Carnoustie was then followed by my worst round of the weekend ...
Perhaps 30 miles is a bit far to cycle before a round of golf and to expect it to be good !!
I would rest tomorrow as Carnoustie Championship Course beckoned and wanted to do it justice.


Photographs :

6.5 miles Looking across the Tay towards Tayport from
Broughty Ferry

7 miles : This is the Castle at Broughty Ferry

7 miles : A wide angle view of Broughty Ferry Castle and my first
view of the Tay Bridge which really does run uphill heading south.

8 miles : The view along the Tay to Dundee from Broughty Ferry

11 miles : The North Carr Lightship now sittiing in a dock in
Dundee not far from the bridge.

11 miles : The Road Bridge with the Rail Bridge behind and
below on a ripple free slack water on the River Tay.

11 miles : Looking east from the bridge.

11 miles : More beautiful reflections of sky and clouds.

11 miles : A very still Tay now

11 miles : a view from the bridge with its reflection in the river.

13 miles : A plaque at the South end of the bridge to commemorate the collapse
of the Tay bridge in 1879

13 miles : Sculpture just by the bridge on the south end (Y ?)

15 miles : The High & Low lights at Tayport used to help ships navigate
the shipping channels in the River.