An eventful commute
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I didn't really feel like biking it today, but I did. 5.5 hilly miles with a slight headwind at an average of 10.4mph. A shade quicker than the last time (which was in the dark).
Along the way:
A learner driver comes halfway out at a mini roundabout before noticing that I'm there. She was surprised and sheepish, so I'm not holding a grudge. I hope she wasn't on her test.
I met two horse riders (is that the right term? my English is letting me down) on the country lane today. The first conversation I've had on the bike, even if it was only a short word about the weather as they passed.
Today was the first time I whizzed down Deiniol Road out of Bangor station with my cyclocomp. The road was clear, thanks to the lights, and I touched 29.7mph before slowing for the roundabout! I really want to (sneakily) break 30 there.
Then on the way home, I got off the train without my helmet. The staff at the ticket office called Colwyn Bay station, and they took it off the train before it got any further. I bought a ticket to go pick it up instead of wait for the next return train, so I didn't save any money at all today by doing the longer cycle to Llandudno Junction. Further, as I was coming home from Colwyn Bay, I got the same westerly headwind that I had on the morning run (11.8mph average on the flat route)
Along the way:
A learner driver comes halfway out at a mini roundabout before noticing that I'm there. She was surprised and sheepish, so I'm not holding a grudge. I hope she wasn't on her test.
I met two horse riders (is that the right term? my English is letting me down) on the country lane today. The first conversation I've had on the bike, even if it was only a short word about the weather as they passed.
Today was the first time I whizzed down Deiniol Road out of Bangor station with my cyclocomp. The road was clear, thanks to the lights, and I touched 29.7mph before slowing for the roundabout! I really want to (sneakily) break 30 there.
Then on the way home, I got off the train without my helmet. The staff at the ticket office called Colwyn Bay station, and they took it off the train before it got any further. I bought a ticket to go pick it up instead of wait for the next return train, so I didn't save any money at all today by doing the longer cycle to Llandudno Junction. Further, as I was coming home from Colwyn Bay, I got the same westerly headwind that I had on the morning run (11.8mph average on the flat route)
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Nice !
Great service by the train people - thats always good to see.0 -
Eep, I almost forgot!
On the way back from Colwyn Bay, I saw a young man in a hoodie on a bike cross the road ahead of me and join the cycle path. This is only the third person I've seen cycling in the same direction as me. (One roadie flew past me leaving Bangor going uphill, and an elderly gentleman joined and left my route while cycling through the town of Rhos-on-Sea)
Fifteen metres to close. Pursuit! I started closing the gap, only to see him scissor back to climb a ramp from the cycle path up onto the sea wall. 'Bother', I thought, 'he's going the other way after all'. I look back later to see that he is going the same way, he just prefers riding on the sea wall's pavement to the adjacent cycle path. A later glance confirmed that he was falling behind, and I saw no more of him before I turned off for home. A virgin scalp, methinks!0 -
32.3 max on that little hill this morning! 8)0
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met two horse riders (is that the right term? my English is letting me down) on the country lane today. The first conversation I've had on the bike, even if it was only a short word about the weather as they passed
How slow were you going ... or were the horses galloping?!
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I think I was going quicker. They were going the other way.kevinharley wrote:met two horse riders (is that the right term? my English is letting me down) on the country lane today. The first conversation I've had on the bike, even if it was only a short word about the weather as they passed
How slow were you going ... or were the horses galloping?!0
