cancan64 wrote:Photochromatic glasses for me... saves switching glasses when the sun comes up.
I might have to do some research on these photochromatic glasses to avoid near misses at sunrise in future. I have never heard of them before, so thanks.
Today's long ride (<10km) was boring with regards to the traffic. I like boring rides the best, but they are not much to write home about. I met a lady cyclist on the way home. I was waiting at a red light, at the left of the right lane, because the left lane was marked with arrows to indicate left-turn only, not that there is any left arrow on the traffic lights, so the left-turn-only arrow
is quite pointless. I guess someone at the council drew the arrow on the road and someone at Main Roads did the traffic lights, and they lost each other's email addresses.
Anyway, she pulled up on the left beside me and called out a sort of friendly, if negative greeting, "Don't you hate that ... ride all that way and the light goes red?" and I paraphrase but that was roughly what she said, shooting the breeze, being friendly. I meant to be friendly back to a fellow cyclist, and I rather think I failed, because I agreed with her out of courtesy, (red lights do have some use in the city), but couldn't help remembering the discussions here so by-the-book and was unable to resist the urge to politely let her know that she shouldn't be in that lane unless she was turning left. I figured she wasn't turning left or she would have hopped onto the footpath to get around the corner and miss the red light altogether, and as poor a reason for my judgment that may have been, she did indeed ride straight through and follow me for a couple of hundred metres because I could see her in my rear-view mirror. I wish I had been more friendly and saved the useless comment which achieved nothing except to discourage her from talking to other cyclists at traffic lights. If the lady in question is reading, I am sorry. I did not mean to be impolite about the road rules like that. I should have thought before opening my mouth.
Today's ride was significantly more comfortable than Tuesday's Short Ride (<5km) with that blasted two-stroke mix in my blood all the way, and I managed to maintain that personal best 28km/h up the Big Hill. That endorphinic euphoria that blessed me on the Friday two weeks ago has not arrived now though. I just feel exhausted. Happy but exhausted, and not over the moon about it like after that one. Possibly because that was the Short Ride and not so taxing on the old man stamina like today's Long Ride (<10km).
I have been wise and made sure to only buy one bunch of broccoli for breakfast, so that will force me to have to take another Short Ride on Tuesday to buy another bunch of broccoli for breakfast on Wednesday. Modern life takes so much careful planning thesedays, doesn't it?
Yep, a boring ride today. Boring rides are the best if you want to grow old.
Have a Happy Friday and a Good Weekend.