Wetter the rain that fell, than surf in Holborn#

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000

As a general rule in this blog, the more strained the pun in the post title, the more boring the post.

Route check Tuesday night was moderately brisk and good fun. By the time I left the pub afterwards it had been raining for long enough to make the ground rather slippery, and when I got back halfway across town to the office (where I keep some shoes for this kind of thing) I found that the security guy had bolted the front door so my swipe card was no use, and had to skate the rest of the way home too. Thumbs up for greased bearings: I wiped off the spray on the boots and wheels when I reached home, then span the wheels a few times while holding over an electric fire, and six out of eight of them were still spinning freely the next day. The other two only required a small amount of additional force and are now also spinning freely.

Day off yesterday (meetings after work to which I needed to carry a laptop), skate to work again this morning. Tonight I'll be retracing the second half of tomorrow's route just to make sure I remember it, then skating randomly around back streets between Hyde Park and Parson's Green looking for a route for Sunday.

[ let's say 30k total for Tuesday and 5k for this morning ]