Entry #177
- Listening to:
- Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie, The Mooche.
Last weekend, I cycled from
King's Lynn
to
Hunstanton
and back, mainly using National Cycle Route #1. These cycle routes
seem a great institution. They are established and maintained by
Sustrans, a charitable
organisation devoted to the ideal of "sustainable transport". Much of
the money funding the project came from the Millenium Commission. Far
better fund nice cycle routes 'round the country than throw money at a
white elephant Dome.
I was cycling with a group of friends who were much better cyclists
than me (and also on better bikes), so I was definitely the laggard of
the group. They were very nice about my general incompetence and the
fact that I was slowing them down. Though I was completely exhausted
by the end of the ride, I was pleased that I had actually managed it.
I don't think I'll ever try to do that sort of distance as quickly
again.
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