58.90km / 2:47:44 / 209m / 24.1°C
My Sunday afternoon longer ride, today was a cloudy & still afternoon when I left home so I headed down towards the bay, following Murrumbeena road south then whatever it turned into then using some inspired guesswork to head across and down to reach the bay – popping out at the Black Rock roundabout.
Then onto the Beach bike path and follow it south as far as I could, a bit of a breeze had sprung up so it wasn’t as easy as I’d thought. Stop in for a coffee at Mordialloc, a macchiato at Cafe du Tour, surrounded by chainlink fences and council redevelopment of the park, then off south along Station street, dodging potholes and trying not to get squeezed into kerbs by passing drivers, everything narrowed and chewed up by the railway works.
Carrum to Dandenong was a fast - for me - trip up the gravel paths, spinning along and glancing at all the birdlife in the river; cormorants and pelicans, a couple of large ibis rookeries. Stopped to help two kids with an immobilised bike, it had ingested half a metre of Halloween plastic fake ectoplasm, or something like a mass of plastic cotton wool, into the rear derailleur and come to a wedged-up halt. Completely black and thick with grease, I wiped most of it off and continued up to Yarraman, then home along the Djerring trail
Overcast clouds, 20°C, Feels like 20°C, Humidity 48%, Wind 1m/s from SSE - by Klimat.app
Riding 711th day in a row, including my ;
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