Forecast for today, Thursday
A fine and partly cloudy day with a fresh, gusty northerly wind. A shower or two to follow overnight.
Precis: Windy. Fine day.
City: Min 12 Max 19
Normally I leave for work at 8 am for a reasonably comfortable ride to arrive at work at about 8.40 am for a shower before any appointments I have that start at 9 am. Today was different.
Tom didn't settle for a long time last night. I slept heavily.
8.24 am oh sh!@ Iam late. I have a 9 am appointment. I ring work, tell the answerign machine I am going to be late. Don't bother putting the jacket on, put it in the panniers - I will be warm enough, I am going to have to work hard. On to the bike and pedalling hard. Oh I hate that taste of lactic acid in my mouth. Up and down through the gears, this makes things so much easier, concentrating on traffic, still no rain, road is dry. 8.52 am arrive in the office. Off to the shower, hope I make it back before the client. 9.05 am back in office, cleint hasn't arrived yet. 9.12 am Client rings, sorry running late, Stuck in traffic! Talk about ironic!
Something I have noticed many times was in action again today. Many people don't use their gears much. Every time I stop at an intersection, I change down through my gears to be in a low gear ready to start on the green light. Many times I end up at the start of the queue of bikes after the light turns green. The simple fact that all those people in their very high gears have to stand on their pedals and heave the bike into motion when the light turns green, takes a great deal of time and wastes a lot of their energy. Also puts a lot of pressure on their knee joints. I think the change down of gears might have helped me keep up the momentum to get to work.
Gears are good we just have to rember to use them!
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