Precipitous cycling

I blogged the best part of eleven months ago about various of my feeble reasons for not cycling and followed up by suggesting that I might achieve an Eddington number of 30 by the end of last summer.

Well, last summer was blooming miserable, wet and largely featured me not cycling except for the odd epic. I can now happily declare that I’ve got over my fears of cycling in the rain, cycling in the dark and cycling in the dark and wet. Wearing glasses can make wet cycling a challenge as I’ve yet to find an effective means of wiping the precipitation from my specs but it very much appears to me that the old adage is true: There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. I’ve been out of late in the dark, chased by the gritting lorry (it’s worse when he overtakes) and found that my problem is usually that I’m too warm. Cycle clothing really seems to have moved on a lot in the last ten years.

Stalkers may like to see where I’ve been over at longwayround.motionbased.com: the more boring rides (such as ten mile trips to the swimming pool) are omitted.

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• Bloody annoyed
• 60 miles
• Edgy cycling