55.01km / 2:44:47 / 380m / 34.0°C

Klimat app is on another planet, the Garmin measured the temperature as 31-38! Bloody hot

During the week I’d seen some photos of the new “#skyrail” adjacent bike path and associated stations up towards Preston, added it to a list of places to visit to see how it compares to the – now five-year old – #DjerringTrail

Off along the Anniversary trail to head north, then checked the maps to see how to get there and how long it would take – another 12km or so, so on I went into the heat and following the Merri Creek trail. Eventually I took a minor wrong turn and was deposited back onto roads, so took a hot wide street west until I found the railway and the new paths, then on north to Preston Station

Very impressive look to the station and the decorated poles, of course they’re five years younger than along our line, so not so graffitied and faded, but even so they’ve got better art. Road crossing treatment seems to have learnt a few things from along the #DjerringTrail – more clearly delineated, and little things like having the beg button on the left where you can reach it, rather than on the far right where the pole happened to be. Wonder if it was LXRA learning, public pressure, or secret northside cycling cabal that got that done?

Then turn for home, south to the city, a few minor navigational difficulties in places I’m unfamiliar with, and back out onto the Yarra trail, around to Gardiners Creek trail, home, then rehydrate

Clear sky, 26°C, Feels like 26°C, Humidity 32%, Wind 2m/s from WSW - by Klimat