Monthly Archives: August 2016
[POTD] Not a bad view to start the day
[POTD] Time for lunch
[Push] Training on your commute
I have done well this week on my cycle commutes this week. I have managed to cycle more than 100 miles, (ok it was only 101.5 miles, but that still counts).
Not cycled that kind of distance in a week in a long time, might have been over a year.
What made it even more brilliant is that I averaged 15.5 mph over that distance! This is amazingly fast given that this was riden in rush hour traffic.
My legs are a bit tired, but I’m very happy with my effort. GoMe.
[Happy] Achievements of the week..
I have been a bit busy of late so not recording things that have been making me happy.. but as I come to the end of the week it is worth me remembering that within the busy I have been awesome.*
1) I managed to high five a chap who was waving for a bus as I cycled past.
2) I worked out a way with the technology available to live stream H as she taught a crochet class, do that we can have a close up of her hands as she demonstrates. This close up is then displayed on the big screen so everyone can see.
3) I have successfully covered for my boss while he has been in holiday for the last fortnight. I have finished this week with 350 unread emails, and 130 flagged for follow up. However the sky hasn’t fallen and I have stepped up and presented myself well. Even if I was starting to look a little tired on Friday.
Right now to try and relax a little.
* Even if I do say so myself.
[Commute] Stuff shouted from cars
This evening while cycling home, I was shouted at by a driver as the overtook. Amazingly it was actually audible, as the Doppler effect and engine noise. The shout was..
“Cycle lane”
Which I think was a reference to the fact that I was cycling in the road, rather than one of the new and mostly decent cycle superhighways.
I smiled, and shouted back
“Road”
While pointing out the very nice road that I was riding along.
I think that this little exchange my have upset the driver, and not exactly helped with car v cyclist relations, but if your shouting things from cars I don’t think your ready for calm discussion about the highway code. So no big loss really.