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Day 5 - Perth to Edinburgh

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Distance: 43.3 miles Elevation: 1839 ft Average speed: 11.6 mph https://www.strava.com/activities/2439340695 Ride report: Day 5 of 15, a third of the way through the trip - seems like time for a "rest day". Except, with time limited by the amount of leave I could feasibly take, and a planned trip to France with friends at the end of the month, we've gone for a short day rather than a day of no cycling at all. After a bit of a lie-in and a good cooked breakfast, we left Perth at about 10.30am.  Navigating out of the city was interesting, but with only a couple of very short bits of accidental dual carriageway, we were soon out into the countryside. Such different surroundings to the Highlands! Noticing that there was a cycle route signposted to Kinross, where we'd be meeting Mum for coffee, we decided to follow that instead of the route I'd planned and loaded on the Garmin. Oops. The road very soon "rose up to meet us" and once the g