102.15km / 5:00:09 / 456m / 9.0°C
Rain, roadworks, winds, and endless streams of abusive close-passing horn-blasting drivers. Not an enjoyable part of the world to ride through
Other things of note; magpies have decided swooping season has commenced, in Dandenong South at least, and after yesterday seeing several hundred cyclists in everything from individuals to mass bunches, today I saw a grand total of four
Fitting a 5-6 hour ride in with a family breakfast I left shortly after and followed the various bike paths parallel to main roads out to Dandenong and through, then discovered the Hallam Valley Trail. A surprise discovery, very flat and empty country, and I hadn’t realised just how much of a tail wind I had. Bleak and windy with a scattering of rain, I got to my easternmost point and tossed a mental coin between north to Berwick & back along the rail line, or down to Frankston and the bay. Cranbourne and Frankston won, but I think it was a poor choice. Endless miles of new housing estates, bike lanes that came & went, and sometimes vanished just as there were roadworks to squeeze you into high speed traffic. Not a coffee or a cafe to be found in Cranbourne, then I managed to get rerouted by more roadworks where the main road was closed, I thought I could cut through part of Cranbourne south, but ended up just circling around in the rain and back the way I’d come in. From here to Skye was appalling, a narrowed road with constant traffic, a concrete wall 50cm from my left and speeding utes 50cm from my right. Was well glad to see the end of it and get back to partly known territory and use the path back towards Carrum then the long slog back into wind & rain finally back to Clayton and home
Light rain, 10°C, Feels like 9°C, Humidity 86%, Wind 2m/s from WSW - by Klimat.app
My 963rd day in a row riding a bike, including my and astoundingly, all of 2021.
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