18.64km / 57:01 / 213m / 22.0°C
After a few logistical difficulties around getting the heavyweight AWOL on and off the roof rack, here we in Lorne for a week. This afternoon I headed out tentatively for a shortish ride; 5km out of town one way, then back through and out the other. Cathedral rocks to the north-east, around to the St George river to the south. Bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling in to town, an endless traffic jam from the tourist information centre out to the 117W marker, so roughly 3km of stationary or crawling cars – amusing enough to pass when heading in the opposite direction, slightly more hair-raising on the way back riding down their left-hand side, especially as quarter of the drivers seem to be on the phone, either calling or videoing through the windows
Stopped for a coffee on the way back, then girded my loins and attacked the hill up to the house, prepared to get off and walk if my shoulder required it. Seemed to go OK, low enough gears meant I could spin my way up to the bottom of the driveway, I didn’t want to risk standing for the last section to the house
Overcast clouds, 20°C, Feels like 21°C, Humidity 93%, Wind 3m/s from S - by Klimat.app
My 1464th day in a row riding a bike; the last 6 days of 2019, my and all of 2021, 2022 and 2023 so far…
Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps
