Penny Cheats
Today:
Group Bike Ride:
Distance: 21 km
Total time out: 1 hr 40 mins
Weather: sunny, temp 18 degrees, wind calm, humidity 40%
Running: nil
I have missed the last three weeks of riding, being in Qld for the Glasshouse run and last Thursday at the doctor getting repaired after the run.
As Paul will say, all through winter and before, there has not been a bad day weather wise on a Thursday to prevent the group bike ride. The only stopper is school holidays when most of us are on different shifts so split breaks are all over the place. Nothing to stop a solo ride which I will probably do next week.
There seems to be plenty to stop some from getting out into the sunshine as a few failed to front at 11 am having indicated their intention to be riding earlier in the week. Whatever, it will be a poor excuse. Today was near perfect to be riding.
Just to mention a few, ever complaining " Jane" said he was going, DNS. Fraaze, again, piked out without a note from mum, must have been kept in after class or no lunch. More likely, there may have been a hill or two.
Eight of us ventured out, up Isabella Dr past Chisholm shops to near Rose Cottage, behind Gilmore and Chisholm houses to make it to Calwell oval, up Tharwa Dr, ( that up word gets Fraaze all the time) to Gordon, over to the dog exercise area near Point Hut, then along the river track to Pine Is and back to the depot.
Two peeled off after an hour, then another two a little later on, leaving four to tackle the river track. It beats me how Paul can get that worn out Noah's Ark bike around the course. It's very basic, even the rack is held together by string, lost the water bottle out there somewhere, everything is broken but it gets him back.
The title says " Penny Cheats". Penny will say " uses initiative". Heading up Isabella Dr on a gentle up slope, but on the dirt, the track then goes up a sharp but short rise. We go back down the gears into low, low and struggle. Penny, stays low side near the road, we go high and she goes from last to near first. Bugger cries the crowd.
This time no punctures, very lucky as Terry picked a thorn close to the finish but the tyre didn't go down.
The guys and girls are getting better all the time, Daniel, Ned, Paul, BT can get around now for a couple of hours and still stay awake all afternoon. Good riders Steve and Terry can blow the rest of us away at the turn of a wheel. Steve has a new mystery course for next time. I may not have riden a bike over the tracks but I bet I have ran on them. There wouldn't be many on the south side of Canberra that don't have my footprint on them.
Another great day out, I don't know what the workers were doing in their lunch break, pie and chips maybe, couple of schooners, but they wouldn't have had as much fun as us. Nothing too exciting this week, no spills, just thrills.
Group Bike Ride:
Distance: 21 km
Total time out: 1 hr 40 mins
Weather: sunny, temp 18 degrees, wind calm, humidity 40%
Running: nil
I have missed the last three weeks of riding, being in Qld for the Glasshouse run and last Thursday at the doctor getting repaired after the run.
As Paul will say, all through winter and before, there has not been a bad day weather wise on a Thursday to prevent the group bike ride. The only stopper is school holidays when most of us are on different shifts so split breaks are all over the place. Nothing to stop a solo ride which I will probably do next week.
There seems to be plenty to stop some from getting out into the sunshine as a few failed to front at 11 am having indicated their intention to be riding earlier in the week. Whatever, it will be a poor excuse. Today was near perfect to be riding.
Just to mention a few, ever complaining " Jane" said he was going, DNS. Fraaze, again, piked out without a note from mum, must have been kept in after class or no lunch. More likely, there may have been a hill or two.
Eight of us ventured out, up Isabella Dr past Chisholm shops to near Rose Cottage, behind Gilmore and Chisholm houses to make it to Calwell oval, up Tharwa Dr, ( that up word gets Fraaze all the time) to Gordon, over to the dog exercise area near Point Hut, then along the river track to Pine Is and back to the depot.
Two peeled off after an hour, then another two a little later on, leaving four to tackle the river track. It beats me how Paul can get that worn out Noah's Ark bike around the course. It's very basic, even the rack is held together by string, lost the water bottle out there somewhere, everything is broken but it gets him back.
The title says " Penny Cheats". Penny will say " uses initiative". Heading up Isabella Dr on a gentle up slope, but on the dirt, the track then goes up a sharp but short rise. We go back down the gears into low, low and struggle. Penny, stays low side near the road, we go high and she goes from last to near first. Bugger cries the crowd.
This time no punctures, very lucky as Terry picked a thorn close to the finish but the tyre didn't go down.
The guys and girls are getting better all the time, Daniel, Ned, Paul, BT can get around now for a couple of hours and still stay awake all afternoon. Good riders Steve and Terry can blow the rest of us away at the turn of a wheel. Steve has a new mystery course for next time. I may not have riden a bike over the tracks but I bet I have ran on them. There wouldn't be many on the south side of Canberra that don't have my footprint on them.
Another great day out, I don't know what the workers were doing in their lunch break, pie and chips maybe, couple of schooners, but they wouldn't have had as much fun as us. Nothing too exciting this week, no spills, just thrills.
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