Autumn Leaves
Today was a day of mist. Mist with pretensions of fog. The kind of weather that gets you distinctly damp over a few miles riding, and leaves the roads wet. Not foggy enough to slow the traffic down, so the sort of weather where you still need eyes in the back of your head.
Or I wish I did have eyes in the back of my head - with the water on the tarmac, a full-on look over my shoulder (the "I’m looking at you, and YOU know I’m looking at you" look) upset the balance of the bike in Blyth and induced a moment’s heart-in-mouth pause in my progress. A sideways skip of the back wheel that was probably unnoticed by the driver behind.
And then riding home there were these things all over the path:
The train companies have bad experience of these things. They did their best to catch me out on bends and junctions too. But I was wise to their game and got home delighted with the official onset of Autumn.
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 10/08/2010
- Time: 20:01:26
- Total Time: 1:45:00.00
- Calories: 1534
- Distance: 29 miles
- Average Speed: 16.57 mph
In The Netherlands, “those things” get promptly cleaned off bicycle roads by the local government.
Yep, and according to David Hembrow, they even clear that white fluffy stuff off in the winter!
Hmm…a veritable ice rink of mushy leaves in the making there. Watch out!!
Note that there are no leaves on the road.
No - they were too busy availing themselves of the cycle routes instead! Actually, a hundred yards or so up from where I stopped to take this photo, the bike route joins the road. At this point, the leaves decide that the road is a good place to be, and got themselves nicely wet, mushy and slippery to boot. It’s enough to make you paranoid.