Each year up to 1,000 cyclists participate in this annual event which takes a lovely route via the Forth Road Bridge, over the Cleish Hills, swoops down to Kinross, skirts Loch Leven and then takes back roads from Falkland to St Andrews.
This year I'm riding with friend and former University colleague Geoffrey Wallace who is over from California for a holiday in the auld country.
LEPRA are a UK registered international charity focusing on leprosy, Their purpose is to enable children, women and men affected by neglected diseases to transform their lives and overcome poverty and prejudice. Working on the ground in India, Bangladesh and Mozambique they treat, educate and rehabilitate, and through this give a voice to people living on the margins of society.
