Day Ten

With the wind still in our faces, we pick up the route where we left off...

Spittal of Glenshee to Inverness

Distance: 100.37 miles
Time: 12 hours 20 minutes
Ave Speed: 10.9 mph
Max Speed: 35.4 mph


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We cycled uphill to the "highest mountain pass in Britain" (according to Alistair's leaflet). As we cycled through the col, we passed the Glenshee Ski Centre.

The long descent to Balmoral Castle took us along the River Dee - the scenery was simply stunning :)

We took a left to begin the second major climb of the day. En route we passed another ski centre (Lecht) where people were skiing on what appeared to be mud!? We then began another long descent to Grantown-on-Spey.

Here we stopped for our second lunch :) and then began the final climb of the day over to Nairn. On the way we had a pleasant surprise - Stuart (a friendly munro bagger from the last night) was parked up and cheering us on!

The final descent to Inverness was a long time coming, but as we rolled in it was time to make my daydreams of haggis, neeps and tatties a reality :)