Training Log Archive: simmo

Event: MetrO - Coogee (Series Event 11)
 

Bassendean ride. Very slow along the Roe St path and through McIver with 3-4 minute waits at various road crossings and commuters on the wrong side of the path riding like they were in a velodrome trying to beat Anna Meares. Then after McIver it started raining! (Yes, rain! Amazing, blue sky all around, just a solitary little black cloud right above our heads.) The path immediately became an ice rink and I almost stacked it when having to brake at the bottom of the slope going down to join the river path to Maylands at Windan Bridge where a woman was right at the junction trying to pick up her two poodles instead of just pulling them out of the way with the leads.

The rain didn't last long, but the path was wet all the way through to Tranby House, where the little black cloud had moved off across the river to Belmont.

Rest of the ride was largely uneventful, but I wish they would stop cars from blocking the bike crossings on the South side of the railway at the Collier Rd, Ashfield and Grand Prom railway crossings by making them all stay North of the line when the lights are red.