Retrospeculating#

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:22:34 +0000

I realised the other day that it must be about two years since I started skating (unless you count the four or five times I went out on them back in 2000).

In a very odd sense it seems that I have come full circle: in February 2004 I started a job in London involving a 5km journey each morning (preceded by an 80km coach journey; I was living in Oxford) and decided to do it on skates. In January 2006 I live 5km from work and (at least for the last three days) am again commuting on skates. The difference, perhaps, is that that journey was taking around 40 minutes and this one takes 10-15 minutes depending how wet the ground is. Funnily enough, I believed then, as I continue to pretend now, that traffic congestion is/was what prevents me doing it faster.