Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

What a lovely mild morning. 13° with the sun peeking through the clouds. Back to summer gear. Short sleeves and shorts.
My fellow recent train cycling commuter wasn't on the train this morning. They must have got up earlier to get their usual train. So back to being the lonesome cycle commuter.

Had a really nice ride in, heard a shout of Ian as I overtook another cyclists. One of the older regulars of the A21 blast. I haven't seen him for a while so was nice to have a chat en route and catch up.

 

[wafter]

Yesterday was heavy - mild and dry so nice riding conditions, couple of knobheads on the way in on the usual 7 mile out and back to get breakfast then on to work.

After work it was on to kickboxing for a decent session before riding the caffeine and adrenaline wave to push out north for the first session on the rings in a while; which was utterly punishing but rewarding. Then it was back into town and to the supermarket for scant reward; although I did get some slightly reduced battered fish for dinner as I was really craving some protein. A headwind on the way back made it tough going with convincingly aching legs by the time I arrived home having covered another 17 miles or so.

A hard day but I fell asleep feeling absolutely euphoric having thoroughly hammered seemingly every part of myself

This morning saw another nice ride with a very fast first leg thanks to a significant tailwind. Conspicuously little traffic in the usual places today; not sure if this is the result of last week's congestion charges or just natural variation.. it'll be interesting to see how this plays out over the following weeks providing the frothy-mouthed Daily Mail brigade of self-entitlement don't get their way and get it pulled.

Sausages were magnificent this morning; crisp, bronzed and supremely tasty

 

[biking_fox]

urgh. Wet. Heavy traffic. Not quite enough lurgy to justify staying at home, but not fun - until a convenient lorry pulled away at the lights and I could wake surf up the final stretch of road.

 

[blackrat]

Yesterday was heavy - mild and dry so nice riding conditions, couple of knobheads on the way in on the usual 7 mile out and back to get breakfast then on to work.

After work it was on to kickboxing for a decent session before riding the caffeine and adrenaline wave to push out north for the first session on the rings in a while; which was utterly punishing but rewarding. Then it was back into town and to the supermarket for scant reward; although I did get some slightly reduced battered fish for dinner as I was really craving some protein. A headwind on the way back made it tough going with convincingly aching legs by the time I arrived home having covered another 17 miles or so.

A hard day but I fell asleep feeling absolutely euphoric having thoroughly hammered seemingly every part of myself

This morning saw another nice ride with a very fast first leg thanks to a significant tailwind. Conspicuously little traffic in the usual places today; not sure if this is the result of last week's congestion charges or just natural variation.. it'll be interesting to see how this plays out over the following weeks providing the frothy-mouthed Daily Mail brigade of self-entitlement don't get their way and get it pulled.

Sausages were magnificent this morning; crisp, bronzed and supremely tasty

"..providing the frothy-mouthed Daily Mail brigade of self-entitlement don't get their way and get it pulled."
I wonder how necessary this kind of political/class/opinionated/biased comment is on this forum?

 

[ianrauk]

"..providing the frothy-mouthed Daily Mail brigade of self-entitlement don't get their way and get it pulled."
I wonder how necessary this kind of political/class/opinionated/biased comment is on this forum?

Quite necessary when you have to put up with their hate filled, ill informed shyte that can impact on your commute on a daily basis. If you don't like peoples views there is a ignore member feature you can utilise.

 

[blackrat]

Quite necessary when you have to put up with their hate filled, ill informed shyte that can impact on your commute on a daily basis. If you don't like peoples views there is a ignore member feature you can utilise.

Surely you can just as easily ignore what you seem to think is their so called: "..ill informed shyte that can impact on your commute on a daily basis" ?

 

[ianrauk]

Surely you can just as easily ignore what you seem to think is their so called: "..ill informed shyte that can impact on your commute on a daily basis" ?

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt seeing as I think you live in foreign climes. The Daily Heil perpetuates pure hate against anything that doesn't conform to their ill informed nasty right wing values of which includes an irrational hate of cycling and cyclists. According to them, we should be made to pay 'road tax', have number plates and be banished from the roads.
I think I remember you said yourself a while back, you can't believe the amount of shyte us cycling commuters have to put up with. Well it is because of these people that we have to.

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Nearly tropical out there this morning and on the way back 😂 head wind there and back though to even it out.

 

[blackrat]

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt seeing as I think you live in foreign climes. The Daily Heil perpetuates pure hate against anything that doesn't conform to their ill informed nasty right wing values of which includes an irrational hate of cycling and cyclists. According to them, we should be made to pay 'road tax', have number plates and be banished from the roads.
I think I remember you said yourself a while back, you can't believe the amount of shyte us cycling commuters have to put up with. Well it is because of these people that we have to.

Once again, I do not understand why you read so called: Shyte, why not ignore it, as I do about anything connected to the Labour party and that tit Starmer- or Trump, come to that. We can let negative forces interrupt our lives or we can just smell the roses. At the end of the day, there is absolutely nothing we little people can do to effect change so we might as well not let it affect our personal well being - and get out a ride our bikes.

 

[fossyant]

urgh. Wet. Heavy traffic. Not quite enough lurgy to justify staying at home, but not fun - until a convenient lorry pulled away at the lights and I could wake surf up the final stretch of road.

I just missed it this morning, but it's wet again out there for the ride home. Taking it easy as my lurgy hasn't gone yet.

 

[ianrauk]

A strange ride home temperatures wise. It was15° when I left work but felt much colder. So much so that I had to put the windcheater on. Compared to this mornings commute 13° and no jacket.

I'm lucky to pass Rochester Castle every evening.

 

[HLaB]

Really mild dry and quite bright all day and I was wishing Id took brighter lights and could have had an extended tailwind commute to substitute for my scheduled recovery workout. When I got to the Station I was wishing it more. Apparently all the trains had been off for ages due to a medical emergency. Fortunately the train scheduled for 30mins before mine was about 55mins late so my wait wasn't too bad unlike a friendly mtb commuter who had been there for several hours. Given it was the first Peterborough train running and the second London train running it was packed. Fortunately though we managed to squeeze in and the aisle cleared so my narrow road bike was able to go a bit down it to make room. 4 stops down the line the mtb commuter got off and seemed to take a lot of people with them and 2 of the flip up seats for bike storage became free. I made a bee line for them. Before I even looked at them, the person in the 3rd seat realised and moved.

When I got off the train, typically the weather which had been good had turned wet underfoot. Nearly every driver I encountered on the way home into a really strong headwind was incredibly patient and it stayed dry overhead👌

I did briefly think about doing my workout outside on the commuter bike above but a check of the live weather radar suggested that a more rain was on the way. So

 

[fossyant]

Rince and repeat, but 15c this morning. Took it easy, waterproof jacket unzipped to the bottom, with just a base layer under. I stupidly put the beanz on during the last mile to work, and have cooked ! I tried to dry off under the hand dryer, nope, still sweating. Now got a big pedestal fan on me whilst I cool down - my shirt has soaked through I'm that hot !

 

[fossyant]

A colleague has just walked in with a long woolen coat, having walked from the car park complaining it's cold and wet. I said 'it's boiling it's 15c out there'. They say I'm weird. Office full of women so they need the office warmer. Still sat here with a fan cooling me down

 

[biking_fox]

Warm! damp and windy. Everybody but me seemed to sail through the red lights today :-(