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Jul. 8th, 2025 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rbarclayToday it took me 1h50m to cycle home from 'ork. Instead of the usual 1h5m.
Of the 21.25km I did not have a torturous headwind for about 0.2. But that wasn't enough, of course, because added to that ... last week we had a heatwave with >42°C, which broke over the weekend.
Fine!
But now it's the other extreme - cycling home today it got down to 11°C. And I was fucking freezing my ass off, esp. combined with the headwind. And a nice medium rain, just to spice it all up. I do always carry a light sleeveless rain jacket and ultra-thin rain gloves, which up to now were always perfectly sufficient in the summer months.
But at 11°C, with wind and rain, wet shoes and soaked-through shorts... pushing the bike through a pedestrian railroad underpass near home I had to take a minute and grab the railing, because otherwise I probably wouldn't even have managed to stay upright from shivering and sheer exhaustion.
(As an added bonus: opting for public transport instead of the bike is a no-go right now, because - as every year - summertime is public transport maintainance time, which means it'd take me 2h+ per direction.)
Of the 21.25km I did not have a torturous headwind for about 0.2. But that wasn't enough, of course, because added to that ... last week we had a heatwave with >42°C, which broke over the weekend.
Fine!
But now it's the other extreme - cycling home today it got down to 11°C. And I was fucking freezing my ass off, esp. combined with the headwind. And a nice medium rain, just to spice it all up. I do always carry a light sleeveless rain jacket and ultra-thin rain gloves, which up to now were always perfectly sufficient in the summer months.
But at 11°C, with wind and rain, wet shoes and soaked-through shorts... pushing the bike through a pedestrian railroad underpass near home I had to take a minute and grab the railing, because otherwise I probably wouldn't even have managed to stay upright from shivering and sheer exhaustion.
(As an added bonus: opting for public transport instead of the bike is a no-go right now, because - as every year - summertime is public transport maintainance time, which means it'd take me 2h+ per direction.)