I’m hoping to get some riding going this week. As I have few other outlets left to me by the virus outbreak. All our restaurants and bars and pubs and cinemas are closed, with good reason, I believe. But the bikes are ready to go. I am ordinarily a solitary rider, and have been practicing social distancing for better than a month now. My job has removed overtime from my schedule. The bike co-op has been closed for the emergency as well. All of these things will reopen in time. But this is a good time to make the most of the situation, and that leaves me with cycling.
Which is really a good place for me to be, rather than not getting exercise. I have never been a great group rider. I am not fast, I am older, so I usually get dropped from group rides. I don’t mind. Those who want to make a ride into a hammerfest may do so. I am about riding for enjoyment. And keeping the elegant old bikes on the road. I have not run across many interesting finds lately, except for a Trek /Cycleops Fluid II trainer I found at a local Goodwill. But this may well be a great time for cycling, as I have few other opportunities for exercise and entertainment, and spring is progressing.
It may not seem like much progress, but at least the temperatures are warming a little, and we seem to have much of the snowfall past us. There are lots of routes and bicycles and equipment to test out during these temperate and torrid months. I am not seeing any reason this should, in my case, be affected by the virus outbreak. I am laying low socially, but I plan to range a bit farther afield geographically. I also have plans to research a route a bit north of me, when I have to travel this week. I can then see if sufficient progress has been made on this trail to be worth a trip.
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