Rouken Glen CX (#RGCX) was the opener for Super Quaich, the new Scottish cyclocross series. The host club Alabannach put on an absolute belter. With an A/B race format, grouping riders based on recent results, the racing is much closer right through the race, and should be tight right through the series.

RAB divides the 969-miles journey into 9 consecutive days, which averages at over 105 miles that need to be covered each day. Throughout the journey there are 15,000 ft of climbing to do, which is 13 times the Alp d’Heuz, and just shy of climbing Everest twice!

On Saturday June 20th, a group of 11 riders set off from Edinburgh Waverley (with a Burger King to fill the stomach) in the glorious evening sunshine to get the train down to Carlisle with our bikes travelling down separately in the trusty hands of ‘a man with a van’. After reuniting with our bikes at Carlisle station and enduring a conversation along the lines of ‘Where are you cycling to?’ ‘Edinburgh.’ ‘But we’ve just come from there…’

On Easter Monday, a group of Ronde riders were planning on heading out under the capable hands (and legs) of Alasdair. Some of us met at Ronde, the rest joining at the Morningside Clock on the way out of town. All in all, 6 of us set off on a crisp but sunny April morning.