85.6 miles. 7:47 hours of cycling. Average
speed 10.9mph
Woke up to a beautiful morning and set off
along the edge of the loch. We were riding across the lochs and canals which
link the Irish Sea with the North Sea – a brilliant feat of Victorian
engineering.
As it was Saturday the A82 was not too busy and we got to
Fort William very quickly where we saw a pipe band leading off a mountain bike
race.
We left Fort William with Ben Nevis towering over us and picked up a side road which
turned into a forest track. It was beautiful but very rough and hard to
ride. It went on for nearly 12 miles, which was exhausting.
We took an unpaved canal path towards Fort Augustus which was not as rough, although still tiring. We lunched in Fort Augusts and decided not to follow the Cicerone route up into the hills above Loch Ness, which the book said had some stiff climbs, but to stick to the A82 which, being Saturday, was not too busy. The high road was part of the network of military roads which was constructed in the during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The first four of these roads were constructed in the 1720s and 1730s under the direction of General George Wade (an Anglo-Irishman) and are commonly referred to as General Wade’s Military Roads or simply as Wade’s Roads.
Not taking advatnage of General Wade's construction meant we had a fairly dull 32 mile slog along the edge of the Loch with sparse but very fast traffic.
We took an unpaved canal path towards Fort Augustus which was not as rough, although still tiring. We lunched in Fort Augusts and decided not to follow the Cicerone route up into the hills above Loch Ness, which the book said had some stiff climbs, but to stick to the A82 which, being Saturday, was not too busy. The high road was part of the network of military roads which was constructed in the during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The first four of these roads were constructed in the 1720s and 1730s under the direction of General George Wade (an Anglo-Irishman) and are commonly referred to as General Wade’s Military Roads or simply as Wade’s Roads.
Not taking advatnage of General Wade's construction meant we had a fairly dull 32 mile slog along the edge of the Loch with sparse but very fast traffic.
As we were riding along Millburn Road loopking for the hostel I had smelled curry, so we went back to find the restaurant and stuffed ourselves.
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