The MTB Tour group had the jammy good fortune of dawn-to-dusk sunshine and no significant wind for a 61km off road tour of the East Lothian coastline, River Tyne and Garleton Hills. 5.75 hours on the move and 8 hrs including refuelling stops. This was a challenging combination of soft sand wet and dry in the dunes, boulder beach, salt marsh, perilous bridge, single track corrugated river mud and a final brutal climb of Skid Hill. A finish with a sunset ice cream at ‘Gullane Beach closed a day that had been devised as a test to destruction for the designer. It almost succeeded. Everyone else finished with more left in the tank. Future events will be briefer.
Adam, Garry, Gio, Gordon E, James B, Joanne T, John C, Keith, Lorna, Marion B, Mark J, Martha, Olly, Sharon.
Keith Burns