Well done. Do you still have the same top left square or have you gone further west?
I got mine up to 8x8 on Friday night, but that's over the water in Fife. It'll be next year I think before it grows again.
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Top left moved one north-west to Craigleith. Needed the stroll on Musselburgh beach as well as the walks in the Pentlands.
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I am 8x8 but only 3 squares away from 12x12. Top left would be Dalmeny.
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Got to 12x12 about two months ago and have loads of them in parallel - top left = House of Binns through to Scotstoun. Need a square in West Calder to make a 13x13 and after that two in the Pentlands to make a 14x14
Yesterday climbed Saline Hill to have a 12x12 N of the Bridge too. Have to take to the water (both paddling at Torryburn and canoeing on Loch Leven) to extend that one.
If I get a tile in Cornton in Stirling my cluster will extend to Loch Venachar in the W and Cupar and Haddington in the E.
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@paddyirish, my offer of company for any water based trips still stands.
By the time LEL rolls around I'm sure I'll be eyeing those squares too.
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Thanks, That's me in.
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I had an expectantly good time collecting squares today. My friend's derailleur hanger snapped so he headed home and I aborted the Pentlands loop to play hunt the nearest square. I only hit 29 new squares but increased my cluster by 48 and accidentally increased my max square from 8 to 10.
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Great stuff @acsimpson
That's me done for the year in terms of new tiles- needed to go or a couple of short Motorway Service Station Walks on the way home from the in laws to get over the 800 new tiles for the year (Scotch corner is good - 4 tiles doable in 10 mins).
A bit less than I wanted, but some good groundwork laid for next year.
Next year's targets - 1000 new tiles including more in Austria, cluster to 1200 (Including Dundee, Perth, Dunbar, Glasgow, Crieff and Stronachlachar) and max square to 15 (more Pentlands exploring required).
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I'm useless at posting images!!
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Stiltskin, I use Flickr for sharing photos, and imgur for ad hoc things. Both websites give, for any image you want to share, and for any common size of thumbnail image you want to use, a handy preformatted chunk of 'BBcode' for pasting into your post on a forum like CCE.
I was trying to use Strava religiously this year, to get an idea of my total mileage in order to sense check with my malfunctioning Cateye Micro. But after July I stopped bothering with Strava (and my GPS) because no-one cared. All I know is that I cycled 3064 miles in 2019, of which two-thirds were in the torpedo.
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Got up to 14x14 on Saturday. Getting harder now
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Well done Murun, care to share an image or let us know what the top left corner is?
I'm not far off 13 but currently stuck on 7 overlapping 11x11 squares.
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Certainly - top left is the freight terminal at Edinburgh airport
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Does that mean you have the sea square just north of Musselburgh? You've certainly been off piste in the Pentlands from what I can see.
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"Does that mean you have the sea square just north of Musselburgh?"
That sea square is easy to get from Fisherrow at low tide, it also becomes clear how the town got its name. The sea square northeast of Portobello beach eluded me the same day by a matter of metres, will have to consult tide tables for the lowest tide and return
"You've certainly been off piste in the Pentlands from what I can see."
There are very few squares, if any, without rideable tracks in the northern Pentlands. Looks a bit harder towards the Carnwath end...
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Good effort. Straightforward enough to extend eastwards from that, but those squares at Auchencorth Moss and to the east of Gladhouse reservoir are trickier.
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I added several longest rides last year including RttS out and back and the Fred Whitton Route. I've managed to record some activity on all but 4 days and ridden a 200km route each month since September.
My one target this year is LEL.
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Nice work @acsimpson. My highlights of the year were an ascent of Great Dun Fell en route back from a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales and doing a 240 mile RttS via Berwick upon Tweed (although on the weekend of the solstice rather than the 'official' event the following weekend).
LEL is a great goal to have. I too have been ruminating on the guaranteed entry email, but I have a mind that 2022 might involve a ride from Mull of Galloway to Dunnet Head and then to Inverness. This makes a round 1,000km and it seems quite practical to use the train to get to/from each end. That might lead to an SR 2500, which seems an interesting goal for the year...
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@Greenroofer, that sounds like the sort of adventure your "friend" enjoys. If you also did LEL you wouldn't be far off a Randonneur 5,000.
I rounded off 2021 with an unplanned visit to Balado. By which I mean it hasn't occurred to me that I would be passing another radar dome. I wonder what it would take to link Lowther, GDF and Balado. At least the latter isn't at the top of a hill.
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@acsimpson - a route that starts and finishes in Edinburgh and takes in Green Lowther and Great Dun Fell is ~450km with ~4,800m of climbing (it goes out via the A70 and returns on the A701. Looks a nice route, although a bit long. Just saying.
Alternatively, if you're after just Great Dun Fell in a 'day' ride, then going down via Gala and Hawick and back via Carlisle and the A701 is just 415km, although there's an extra 500m of climbing that way. Just saying that too.
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It's a useful thing to say. And I definitely need to ramp up the mileage this year so within range. However having visited both last year I'm not sure I would get lucky enough with the weather again this year. I also think I will be prioritising range over altitude this year.
That's not to say I'll be shying away from hills, I just won't be actively hunting them as much as I otherwise might.Posted 2 years ago # -
@Greenroofer "from Mull of Galloway to Dunnet Head"
Sounds lovely!
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Great work acsimpson and both you and Greenroofer have some exciting projects for 2022.
I'll get my stats and picture together soon- a pretty pathetic year on the bike, but have accessed a number of blocking tiles by the water. Need to think of some goals for 2022.
Finally, if we think we are hardcore tiling, take a look at this guy
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I was reading the interview yesterday and while his tiling is impressive I was more disappointed that we don't have an equivalent for his job.
I'm an urban well-being engineer focused on even further improving the everyday cycling and walking conditions here in Oulu, Finland.
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Yes, I thought that was awesome. So much common sense in his thoughts.
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It would make a large square a bit easier for us though if you could cycle over the Forth (and Loch Leven) in the winter though.
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Yes for sure. With my paddleboard, I have sorted Loch Leven and am working on the Forth and the Tay. Will take some time...
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Cycled to Heriot and then walked over the hill to the south, and did a short loop through the sheep parks. That took my square to 17. 18 looks fairly straightforward to achieve from there - a few more days cycle/walking in the Pentlands and Moorfoots.
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Nice one. It's starting to look tricky to go south from there. A few tracks on the map but not a well covered area.
Do you think you could have got a bike up the path behind Heriot?
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