RSS 13 October 2003
Filed in BlogMiles Today: 14.4
Miles This Month: 61.3
Miles This Year: 593.3
Hm, only 18 miles to go and I hit 600 for this year. Adds up quickly.
Biggest ride yet, and in the daytime. After filling up, we took a series of expressways to Smart and Final in Santa Clara. After so much slow riding, so much expressway was different - liberating, but a bit manic. I made one mistake; I didn’t give a truck enough space when I passed, so on the way home I practised winding up the throttle further still. It involves crossing a sort of mental barrier to realise I still have even more power left. The trouble is when you’re doing the speed limit and the guy the next lane over is breaking the speed limit, and I want in his lane, I have a choice of breaking the law by speeding in front of him or slowing traffic to get behind him. It’s one great set of checks and balances.
Apart from that, though, I felt like I did okay. I also managed to do my first genuine, on-a-real-road u-turn. Proud moment, bit scary and excessively slow. I need to practise u-turns and judging the right speed to go around a turn, expecially off-ramps.
On the way home, no real events, it is an easy route to take, and fast. And I finally for the first time did the left-turn across Wolfe to our home street. It’s a quick scamper, and a bit blind, but convenient. And for the second day in a row I got into the parking space without having to do a three-million-point-turn. Life is good. Wheeee.
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