1 Week Cycling

I’m quite happy with this. The goal was to cycle every day I could and gently push up how far I went each time. I skipped one day last week, not by choice but because I had to be on a train at 7:15am and didn’t want to arrive at THE VERY IMPORTANT MEETING with all my clothes have gone through the rinse cycle of excessive sweating. For the steel calved seasoned biyclist who’re reading this my pride in the distances I’ve been travelling will certainly elicit a bit of a guffaw. I started going to the local Tescos with a round trip of around 2 miles. No sniggering now, the hill there is pretty steep. Next step up was the Subway in Portswood, total cycling 4 miles. This morning I’ve stepped up to the McDonalds in Swaythling which now takes me up to 5 miles. It’s a hard 5 miles as I’m not exactly fit but each day it’s getting better.

The steep Mousehole Lane isn’t scary any more. The SLOW sign that once looked constraining from the car still comes off as highly sarcastic but I can now get to the top without roadside huffing and puffing which is good. The astute reader will have clocked that my destinations aren’t as healthy as the ride itself (Subway, Maccy Dees) but I’m primarily up for this for a bit of aerobic exercise rather than weight loss. Anyway without stopping at Subway I wouldn’t have seen this LIAR:

Sitting a couple of tables away it was impossible to ignore her load phone conversation which started “Hiya! Yeah I’m in Oxford!”. We weren’t in Oxford, we were in Portswood, 65 miles from Oxford. Then: “yeah, well I got up early this morning and went to Hedge End to get the bus. But I was too early for the buses so I walked to Oxford. Yeah! I know. It is a long way, nice walk though”. Man, if you’re going to do some lying doing it very loudly in public seems an odd choice to me, especially if you’re going to choose such poor quality lies as that. Say you’ve got super powers or you just found out your dad is really Mr T. Lying about walking to Oxford just seems to display a shocking poverty of aspiration.