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Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
My 10 miles a day commuting regime slipped a bit this week, thanks to the heat, an unexpected training course and a couple of after work drinks, so I went out to top up to 50 for the week this morning.
Coming back across the racecourse, bimbling at about 12mph, I was overtaken by a chap. I half thought of giving chase, and then noticed he had the same Creek to Peak pannier as me, so I did catch him, and said "We could play pannier snap!"
He'd also noticed the pannier as he passed me, and we had a nice chat for the next half mile or so - he lives in Fulford, cycles to the station, commutes by train to Sheffield to a bank, and is off to cycle to Eastbourne in a couple of weeks with a much fitter mate, hence his Sunday morning training. I told him how I was making up my miles for the week, and was just back from France, and how I'd cycled to and from Sheffield as part of the trip.
We diverged at the Bishy Road, him to take the off road track to the Millennium Bridge, me to take the road route - these being two opposite right angles of a rectangle, we spotted each other again at the bridge, and waved, before I peeled off down the riverside, and he crossed the bridge.
Funny, how you share these moments with people you'll probably never see again.
Coming back across the racecourse, bimbling at about 12mph, I was overtaken by a chap. I half thought of giving chase, and then noticed he had the same Creek to Peak pannier as me, so I did catch him, and said "We could play pannier snap!"
He'd also noticed the pannier as he passed me, and we had a nice chat for the next half mile or so - he lives in Fulford, cycles to the station, commutes by train to Sheffield to a bank, and is off to cycle to Eastbourne in a couple of weeks with a much fitter mate, hence his Sunday morning training. I told him how I was making up my miles for the week, and was just back from France, and how I'd cycled to and from Sheffield as part of the trip.
We diverged at the Bishy Road, him to take the off road track to the Millennium Bridge, me to take the road route - these being two opposite right angles of a rectangle, we spotted each other again at the bridge, and waved, before I peeled off down the riverside, and he crossed the bridge.
Funny, how you share these moments with people you'll probably never see again.