RogueRunners '26 - Day 7, The West Coast

A run out to Girvan was in prospect today, to begin with the hoods were definitely up & my screen took an age to de-mist, but de-mist it eventually did & we set off. We had some SatNav strangeness. As we left different people's ones were showing 220, 235 & 245 miles to the finish - the actual planned mileage was 196! However a closed road just after Sanquhar was probably the root cause, we did some on-the-fly amendments & headed back the way we'd come through all the road works.

At about this point Linda's wipers gave up, so at each stop there was a certain amount of flapping at the screen with a yellow duster, leading to comments about Morris dancing.

The route was good until we found a REALLY bad logging road, with craters, debris & even a log to be avoided. After a couple of miles it got a surface on it & became wonderfully swoopy.

Then the closed road that had shown up on the SatNavs, by this time we were in two groups but met up again at The Buck tea rooms, visited for the second day running.

It threatened rain all day, but after the initial showers, it never got worse than a dramatic mist on the hills. 

Day 7 Video