Day 12 Kippen to Crianlarich

42.0 miles in 225 mins

Today was to be a day of rain dodging, let me explain: We knew we had quite a lot of time and we knew that there was meant to be a big rainstorm passing over in the morning, so we decided to head out later. By 11, the rain still hadn't arrived (we were close to panic), so we decided to leave anyway. We stopped for lunch about 2 hours later, when the rain looked like it was threatening. We sheltered here for an hour, expecting it to shower and then pass, but it didn't, so we set off again. About 10 minutes down the road, it did tip it down, but fortunately we were right next to a wee tea shoppe when it did so, so we duly had a cup of tea. Set off again through ominous looking clouds and were only a couple of miles from our destination when we were caught out in the open by the rain, but by that time we didn't mind too much, just sprinted it in (with some professional drafting). Arrived at the youth hostel only a little damp. What was really good was that today there was no wind!