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I'm reading Atoine de Saint-Exupery's Terre des hommes at the moment.
The foreword has a great bit about how the earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world because it resists us, and how self discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle, but to do this he needs an implement. And it could be a plough, or a carpenter's plane, or in his case an aeroplane, but for me it's a bicycle.
I suppose on longer rides you have to think about why you're doing it a little, or you'd quickly lose motivation. I was definitely getting plenty of resistance from the world (well, the wind) yesterday.
I was also thinking more banal things, such as "Oh look, the Malverns", "Oh look, a buzzard", "It's stopped raining, finally", "Oh, it's started again" and "I'm fairly sure I'm the youngest person in this tea room".