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Jun 2020
8:38am, 23 Jun 2020
70,373 posts
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Gobi
I'm a bit of an Ekoi man and have lots of their kit and a little Assos.
Indoor training has been heavy on shorts and have discovered I like KOMRaid shorts, the patterns are a little much for my outdoor tastes as a rule but they are a really good bib.
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Jun 2020
8:39am, 23 Jun 2020
19,426 posts
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DeeGee
How strange.
The past couple of days, they've had a lane out on the main road, so it's down to one narrow lane in my direction funneled through cones. Not a long one, but a pinch point so I decided rather than holding my line through there and then being recklessly overtaken on leaving it by someone who wants to get to a red traffic light first- the outcome of the past two days- I'd take a slightly longer route through a housing estate and the hospital to take me past the roadworks.
Only an extra quarter of a mile, slightly more sinuous, traffic calmed, and one extra red light and some pedestrians in the way on a shared use path.
2 minutes quicker!
I'm guessing that's more a measure of my improving fitness rather than a function of the speediness of the route.
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Jun 2020
9:05am, 23 Jun 2020
10,786 posts
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MazH
Worth a permanent change DeeGee?
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Jun 2020
9:09am, 23 Jun 2020
19,427 posts
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DeeGee
I'm tempted.
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Jun 2020
9:15am, 23 Jun 2020
19,428 posts
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DeeGee
It removes quite a busy roundabout from the equation, which is handy.
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Jun 2020
10:24am, 23 Jun 2020
7,667 posts
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jda
An alternative might be to ride the coned-off lane if it's not physically out of action for other reasons? I routinely do this through roadworks to avoid holding up following traffic. (Well, routinely if I encounter such situations, which are now rare for me.) But in principle I also would happily take a more pleasant but slightly longer route so long as it wasn't tediously slowed.
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Jun 2020
10:28am, 23 Jun 2020
19,429 posts
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DeeGee
I would have ridden the coned-off lane if it wasn't for the massive collection of signage in the middle of it. No roadworks that I could see. Just signs advising of the lane closure, throughout the lane closure.
And an additional advantage of this new route is it collect marginally more WSW squares.
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Jun 2020
11:44am, 23 Jun 2020
19,431 posts
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DeeGee
Tell you something else. I hopped on the scales this morning, and was the same weight after a good breakfast as I was a fortnight ago when dehydrated after a long run. So there's an unintended but entirely welcome weight-loss element to this.
Currently, the main reason for my cycling to work is because we only have one car at home, the wife's at home with the kids and we'd prefer her not to have to get public transport if she's going to go anywhere with them. Of course, the weather we're having right now is helping as well. And I haven't put any diesel in the car since March and want to hold on as long as possible if I can.
What is going to be harder is keeping this going through the winter. When I bought my bikes in 2010, just after the boy was born, I kept myself on the road by training for a triathlon, but that's not really something I have time to think about just now, but I know I will need something to motivate me come autumn.
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Jun 2020
11:51am, 23 Jun 2020
10,787 posts
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MazH
That's my worry too.... and I'm only doing once a week, while the weather is ok.
(I'm in Scotland, so good weather doesn't really come into it!)
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Jun 2020
1:35pm, 23 Jun 2020
70,377 posts
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Gobi
Maz - when growing up this is how I remember the weather
If you wake up and it is clear then it is cold
If you wake up to clouds it will rain and be cold
If the clouds are moving it will rain, be cold and windy
If it is between October and May , clouds may mean snow
Anything in between is cold - OH MY GOD IT'S 10 degrees lets get the shorts on
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Part-run commuting and the rain
Jul 2015
