GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Okay... who went out taking pot shots at all the motorists making them duck for cover & hide?... 27 cars passed me on the way home... it's normally more like 150!
Tales from today's commute....
- Thread starter martint235
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Also not a commute, but t'other day I saw a wood pigeon sat up right in the road, stone dead, with the top of its head sliced off, gawd knows what hit it.
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When I first started where I am now I was with an agency and my job was to work on the containers the stores got every day, I'd help empty a forty foot container a morning five mornings a week most weeks, occasionally they would have only a twenty foot one or they would miss a day, in the afternoon I would be put on topping up the pallet spaces on the shop floor.
Andrew_P
In between here and there
I was quite surprised by how it had an effect on the Afternoon ride, got another one tomorrow so will definitely have Friday legs.
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That job was the first one I had where I would have Friday legs by Thursday, I moved to the warehouse after six months and got taken on full time after seven months, I'm order picking most of the time but we get containers several times a month, but these we load, cram them to the roof and ram them to the doors most times, loading one is as bad as unloading one, I still get Friday legs by Thursday when we're busy even though there's less heavy lifting involved.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
A slow commute this evening for me. There had been an accident on the Parkway (ring road) resulting in major congestion in town which even at my slow pace I cruised by. Popped to a supermarket too but decided in my overloaded state not to dice with traffic and took an off road route back.
Nice ride in this morning, Got a couple of scalps, I took some fella who then sat on my wheel (I didn't mind) he overtook me but dropped our average speed so had to drop him...hard (Little did he know I was trying to get a pb on my average speed) and I did 20.6mph over 10 mile's, well chuffed 
although not much climbing on that route 
although not much climbing on that route 
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Muggy this morning. Very warm, overcast, threat of rain.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Muggy, misty but like @Andrew_P (LOCO) no traffic. Tookk a while to get going but after Morborne Hill Bump I got the fixie up 16.5mph average before I hit very limited congestion at the last four roundabouts and proceeded with caution so the average dropped to 16.4mph. The only event I can think of (well not really an a event) a driver passed close and tried to push me into the back of a parked car; well it seemed that way at the time, in truth they were probably just oblivious rather than showing intent.
MisterStan
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- Location
- Out there somewhere
Good quick run in this morning, no suicidal squirrels or road kill today. Legs felt better this morning than they did last night - I felt very lethargic on the run home yesterday and didn't particularly enjoy the ride.
Looks like the wind is back for some of next week too....
Looks like the wind is back for some of next week too....
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
That part of the reason I decided to go for a wee bit of a longer commute this morningLooks like the wind is back for some of next week too....
