Today's Ride
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Today was a day populated with mistakes. I couldn't seem to make the right choices. Today's Karma was flowing in a different direction. Yet it all came out good...
Things were capped off by a poor judgement call involving a low hanging branch catching my backpack and dragging me over, losing balance, falling into a patch of nettles, in shorts, still clipped-in. A muttered expletive, picked myself up, remounted and carried on. Only to realise I was unstung... Stranger things have happened...
The weather was quite moody today. I was lucky again. The ride home was a bit of a stunner.
Things were capped off by a poor judgement call involving a low hanging branch catching my backpack and dragging me over, losing balance, falling into a patch of nettles, in shorts, still clipped-in. A muttered expletive, picked myself up, remounted and carried on. Only to realise I was unstung... Stranger things have happened...
The weather was quite moody today. I was lucky again. The ride home was a bit of a stunner.
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One of those days! The top photo is glorious
CassidyAce
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Rain was forecast for lunchtime and the forecast was not wrong. I waited it out and set off shortly before 15:00. The temperature was at 19°C but with the wind chill factor taking it down to a 'feels like' 14°C, which gives an idea of the strength of the wind. It started off cloudy but quickly brightened up and I enjoyed the sunshine for most of the ride: a 29 mile loop through farmland and along the coast. Very windy along the seafront: it could knock you off your feet at its strongest. I had to cycle into it for six miles or so—I just slugged it out two gears lower than I would usually be in along that stretch.
CassidyAce
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Reminds me of Jean Baudrillard on hyperreality!
(Not random, really. Whatever 'really' means? Highbrow cultural reference, though, just for brownie points or to piss people off—whichever way the cookie crumbles.)And that great idea of his: 'Powdered water: just add water to make water.'
[Insert sincere social comment here.]
Weather looks nice.
(Honestly, it looks a damn sight better than the 10+ hours in front of a laptop that I've done today.)
Slight chill in the mild air, 14 degrees, rising to 16 in the sun, isolated horizontal showers that needed a quick jacket application. A few blue sky patches in-between the fast moving cloud. Surprisingly fairly still.
Took in the "usual" route around the southern tip towards Mousehole but took a different side route out of St Buryan which included a tidy decent to the junction to Lamorna. It skips out the valleys before then so it's a decent alternative if the legs fancy a different route. Instead of turning left at Sancreed for the beacon I stayed on the road at Sellan before re-joining the road to Grumbla where I stopped to apply said jacket as I saw the rain coming from the left off the Atlantic. I looked backward for once and was surprised to see the view all the way back to the bay. Onwards, I managed to skirt around the shower before home. A relatively easy 22 miles.
Took in the "usual" route around the southern tip towards Mousehole but took a different side route out of St Buryan which included a tidy decent to the junction to Lamorna. It skips out the valleys before then so it's a decent alternative if the legs fancy a different route. Instead of turning left at Sancreed for the beacon I stayed on the road at Sellan before re-joining the road to Grumbla where I stopped to apply said jacket as I saw the rain coming from the left off the Atlantic. I looked backward for once and was surprised to see the view all the way back to the bay. Onwards, I managed to skirt around the shower before home. A relatively easy 22 miles.
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Slight chill in the mild air, 14 degrees, rising to 16 in the sun, isolated horizontal showers that needed a quick jacket application. A few blue sky patches in-between the fast moving cloud. Surprisingly fairly still.
Took in the "usual" route around the southern tip towards Mousehole but took a different side route out of St Buryan which included a tidy decent to the junction to Lamorna. It skips out the valleys before then so it's a decent alternative if the legs fancy a different route. Instead of turning left at Sancreed for the beacon I stayed on the road at Sellan before re-joining the road to Grumbla where I stopped to apply said jacket as I saw the rain coming from the left off the Atlantic. I looked backward for once and was surprised to see the view all the way back to the bay. Onwards, I managed to skirt around the shower before home. A relatively easy 22 miles.
Not so much as a rain drop here so far today Al! Fact of the day: we had a cat named Sellan, from Sellan Farm
