Cycled casually for many years, lots of fun and great times. 20 years+ on MTB mostly with kids on trails so nothing serious apart from 1 week in Chamonix in our younger years, and lots of 7stanes blue and red grades.
Post-kids we mostly do 20-35 mile forest trails now eg Loch Venachar loop with additional fun stressing the car (and passenger) out with 2 heavy bikes on the roof driving twisty roads to get there !!
Also did a Cycling Catalonia Beaches, Wine & Dali something like 250 mile route couple of years ago, really great fun, heavy touring type bikes mostly trails and quiet back roads but saw lots of really interesting places, staying in villages plus winery tours and tasting on 3 days, would recommend it for the casual cyclist.
Last 4 years May (wife) and I still do MTB trails plus now mixed with road biking.
I could do more serious road biking and would enjoy challenging myself more but we do 30-50mile runs which aren’t the hardest, occasional pushes on the steeper hills and faster bits, but we enjoy seeing the countryside, the views mixed with house looking/envy and cakes and coffee rewards.
Last couple of weeks history
2 weeks ago Rannoch Station, coffee and cake stop
Last weekend, beach stop near Inversnaid to enjoy sunshine. Landslides on Loch Katrine ruined Aberfoyle, Stronachlachar, Dukes Pass plans
On holiday this week in St Andrews so yesterdays recovery post St Andrews to Elie loop seems acceptable !
So definitely not worthy in terms of training but enjoyable and gets us out and about.
Hoping lots of people have bought bikes in coronavirus era, not used them much and get rid of them so we can upgrade both MTB and road bikes cheaply in the next year especially the road bikes !