You are reading a single comment by @Belagerent and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Belagerent
I basically lay in my tent with my eyes closed for 10 hours last night. Woke up this morning to some expected rain. Not a huge problem for me, I ride bikes in the rain all the time and today was another short planned day with an actual bed booked at the end of it so I was happy to put up with some suffering.
Climbing the rest of the pass was hard work, but everything looked beautiful in the rain. This part of the road was also less trafficked than the part from the day before, which was filled with small racey cars and touring motorbikes (all driven extremely considerately ofc)
Anyway I had planned to take it easy again so was slightly shocked to reach my predicted destination after only 3 hours of riding. I decided to call it again because whilst climbing in the rain is ok, 1400m descending in the rain would just result in some very numb appendages, and my hostel is booked after all.
Anyway the fact that I took 3.5 hours to do what yesterday took me about 5 means that hopefully I'm on the mend. Thanks for all the well wishes! I am having a good time, only I have optimisation brain and can only think in terms of things I would like to improve.
5 Attachments