Rest Day Blurb.
The rest day has gone to plan, wake up, get dressed (kind of required by current society) head into work, hop off the train and walk the 108 steps to the office lift doors. The more I ride the more the walk hurts.
The general days tasks of meeting, dealing with a few minor Project or human based issues, a large amount of the day taken up by research of SCCM 2007 (Microsoft’s new SMS, no different except for a few more bells and whistles).
I felt flat all day and found myself eating lunch about an hour before planned and skipped the afternoon caffeine hit of a Soy Latte. The afternoon was tough to get through, I’ll need to re-address the lack of coffee tomorrow.
The weather is closing in again, after years of El Nino, which in turn has presented great training weather although the heat can get a touch over the top for a few weeks in the year. It looks like La Nino has taken hold of us, not a bad thing due to a small drought we are currently in but the rain is not making morning training easy.
Picture with thanks from www.bom.gov.au
It’s simple… I just don’t train in the wet. Take too long to get the bike clean and looking good, plus with the water restrictions it’s off to the bike shop… or “Temple of Worship” to get the bike “tuned” (aka: cleaned). I believe in supporting the economy, it’s simple… The bike shop provides a service and I pay for these services. Hence the economy is strong as I keep returning to look at the nice new articles of any cyclist’s desire, the next latest frame.
In some sick way it heading to the bike shop prompts me to continue training and justifies the dollars I have just spent. I’m now in a position that when I walk into the garage I’m in the confusing… yet awesome spot where I need to work out which bike to ride. The rules are simple it looks like rain, the Matt goes out! If it looks clear for the day Heath goes out.
The Boys from left to right: Gareth, Heath and Matt.
The only 2 negative is swapping the Polar 720i across and remembering to change the bike setting from B1 to B2 and the saddle bag. Fear not as I have this down to a fine art and with one more visit to the “Temple of Worship” the saddle bag issue will be resolved. The Polar on the other case is a costly item and will remain as a multiple bike tool.
Nuts at the Wheel
I just have to plug this post by fatty. For a long time myself and friends head out training without a thought that we might not return, that maybe we will meet our fate in an accident. This is a real issue to most cyclists around the world. As cities grow along with the number of cars on the road too. The danger factor of becoming a statistic of another road fatally is quiet real.
The reason for this post is after doing my usual stop over at fatcyclist.com I read his post “Both sides of the Windshield” Aptly named may I add. As I have training with groups both small and large including solo rides I’d say there is about a 15% chance of having a near miss. The usual statement that comes from someone in the bunch is “if it had another coat of paint it would have taken me out”. The amount of near misses are never considered in road statics and this is across the board not just for cyclists.
The following site will give you the opportunity to Report a “Nut at the Wheel” along with the ability to print off the report and submit it to the police as a report.