Ride for Friday, 09 September

I was denigrated at the bike shop tonight for not updating my blog frequently enough, so I will fight against the continuing effects of the virus I've picked up to catch up to date...

This was the midnight ride organised by the critical mass guys and girls. It was a "no holds barred" ride, so people went as fast as they wanted, which was fine, apart from the problem that some people weren't very fast, while others were really quite fast. We ended up in Point Pleasant Park, spread out all the way along. After we managed to regroup, we all headed back from the entrance, and got split up on the way. After we met up at the entrance, we set off, and this time we all got pulled apart. I ended up in a group with Peter, and we rode around downtown looking for them, with sightings of random bikers in the distance eliciting calls of "hey! I think I see them!" followed by a mad dash to catch up to see if it really was them. We went down to the Commons, and looked around htere, then headed back to Victoria Park, where we picked up another couple of stragglers, then headed over to Martin's place off North Street. By this time it was around 1:30am, and the general consensus was to head home and reconsider how to do the ride better next time. I suspect we'll end up with meeting points next time with somewhere to aim for, then fast riders can take the long way round, slow riders can take the short way, and anyone who falls off the back will at least know where they're going...

Distance logged: 42.722km
Time: 153:22
Average speed: 16.7km/hr
Max speed: 44 km/hr
Temperature: 23C-15C
Cumulative distance: 5488.170km
Cumulative cost per km: $0.42
Monthly distance: 206.881km
Monthly cost per km: $0