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    soup
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    Went for a cycle today down the water of Leith walkway
    then along the canal then through East Calder =>Kirknewton
    =>Balerno.The water of Leith walkway is gently downhill the
    canal is flat ,so was speeding along on these sections (well
    relatively I am fat, unfit and over 40).
    Thing is this journey of just over twenty miles took me three
    and three quarters of an hour o.k. I got lost a couple of times
    and had to stop a few times to check the map but not very
    much or for very long, thing is people can jog/run marathons
    of 26 miles in this time and yet I can't better it on a bicycle.
    Can only think that I was lost for longer and looked at
    the map for longer than I thought
    --
    yours S

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

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  2. davek
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    soup said:

    Can only think that I was lost for longer and looked at
    the map for longer than I thought

    You weren't sitting in a pub while looking at the map, were you? 😉

    d.

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  3. soup
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    davek popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said

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    soup said:

    Can only think that I was lost for longer and looked at
    the map for longer than I thought

    You weren't sitting in a pub while looking at the map, were you? 😉

    d.

    "Who me judge, never". :o)

    --
    yours S

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

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  4. soup
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    davek popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said

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    soup said:

    Can only think that I was lost for longer and looked at
    the map for longer than I thought

    You weren't sitting in a pub while looking at the map, were you? 😉

    d.

    Actually humour apart wouldn't mind if I had been sitting in a pub
    but I was more or less constantly on the go.

    --
    yours S

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

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  5. Mark Thompson
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    Actually humour apart wouldn't mind if I had been sitting in a pub
    but I was more or less constantly on the go.

    Pretty impressive. I've spent a couple of months not doing that distance,
    so you've easily beaten my 'non' time :-)

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  6. Sue
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    In message <[email hidden]>, Mark
    Thompson <[email hidden]> writes

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Actually humour apart wouldn't mind if I had been sitting in a pub
    but I was more or less constantly on the go.

    Pretty impressive. I've spent a couple of months not doing that distance,
    so you've easily beaten my 'non' time :-)

    An average speed of about 5 mph is certainly leisurely, but what was the
    weather like? Our CTC group wouldn't accept that as a personal best if
    any of these conditions applied:

    a) Headwind the subject of a Met Office warning
    b) Temperature over 30C
    c) More than two pub stops
    d) Rider in possession of newly purchased camera
    e) South West Trains assist

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    Sue ];(🙂

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  7. soup
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    Sue popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said

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    An average speed of about 5 mph is certainly leisurely, but what was
    the weather like? Our CTC group wouldn't accept that as a personal
    best if any of these conditions applied:

    Quoted message said:

    a) Headwind the subject of a Met Office warning


    Nope a pretty windless day.

    Quoted message said:

    b) Temperature over 30C


    Slightly foggy.

    Quoted message said:

    c) More than two pub stops


    Never stopped at any pubs.

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    d) Rider in possession of newly purchased camera


    Have newish camera but didn't have it with me.

    Quoted message said:

    e) South West Trains assist


    Was Scotland so South West trains not involved .

    Wasn't being all that leisurely about it, the first three quarters
    of it was flat or even slightly downhill and even the uphill bit
    wasn't steep, how I only managed 5mph I don't know.
    Must have rode through some sort of time warp will try this
    route again tommorow/later today and see what my time is
    like without getting lost/looking at maps,although staring at
    a map for an hour and a half seems excesive.

    --
    yours S

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

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