Finished it with a day to spare with the rather nicely judged 501km! (all outdoors)
106km needed and it turned out at 106.8 on the Garmin but I guess the rounding of previous rides has added up too. Had a bit of a near miss towards the end – indicating to turn left off the road onto the canal towpath and because it was a very tight narrow junction to drop onto it and also quite icy, I swung wide (still indicating left), turned in…and the car that had been behind me was trying to pass on my left. She slammed on and I asked which part of the indicating left she’d failed to understand. Close call. Ironically, I was trying to get onto the towpath to get away from the shit standards of driving, it hadn’t been my intended final route in.
I’ve decided, external circumstances permitting that I’m doing this in sunshine next year.
The west coast of Scotland is just not cricket for this kind of endeavour.
@Merak – I did that in ’17 and ’18, went to Gran Canaria. A few of us had had enough of the shit weather, the expectations to be running around between family and dealing with the abysmal driving that seems more prevalent over Christmas. Was lovely, riding in shorts and short sleeves every day. Bloody hilly out there, it was normal to have 3500+m of climbing in a 100km ride but dry roads, warm weather and lots of decent little cafes everywhere somehow made up for all of that! Various friends and acquaintances have done Majorca, Lanzarote and Malaga for the duration as well.