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Day 3 - Bonar Bridge to Aviemore

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Distance: 75.8 miles Elevation: 3800ft Average speed: 11.5mph https://www.strava.com/activities/2434060303 Ride report: When planning this expedition and putting the route together, today was the day I was most worried about, mostly due to the amount of climbing late in the day. It was a hard day, but not as bad as I'd envisaged (i.e. we both made it with both bikes, and it was still light!). It helps that the strava route planning tool I'm using massively overestimates the climb, but I'll try to forget that at the start of each day so it's a nice surprise. Still, it's been a long day, and in writing this, it's strange to think that only this morning we were up on the Dornoch Firth! Pre-ride - I think the bikes were more ready than we were! We made an early start of it today, real shame to leave the excellent airbnb behind, but we knew we had a lot to do. The day started with a good test of the brakes, as it turned out we went down the steep st