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Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even
took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round |
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On 22 Mar, 23:48, Andre Jute wrote:
Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round A couple of months of fair weather would make a pleasant change. TJ |
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Andre Jute wrote:
Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Thank you, but it's Autumn here in the southern hemisphere - and a glorious Autumn at that. 30°C (86°F) here in Canberra today. John |
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On Mar 23, 2:33*am, John Henderson wrote:
Andre Jute wrote: Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round Thank you, but it's Autumn here in the southern hemisphere - and a glorious Autumn at that. *30°C (86°F) here in Canberra today. John Yes, I've heard that from your fellow Canberry, Patrick Turner, already on RAT: "He, he, our coming winter might be just as cosy as your northern summer, and our weather leads us to the roads so that we are always recovering from a decent 70 miler, and with wheels never wet." Thanks, fellers. But I'm not so sure I'd survive your cycling summer if the autumn is 30 degrees (1). I've become accustomed to my weather, even in a perverse way attached to it; whenever I return to Oz, I find the summer unbearably hot. I suspect the mid-Westerners among the Americans who're always telling us about their appalling weather do so at least a little out of pride in their own hardiness. Andre Jute Sitting inside in his cycling pants, waiting for the cold (spring, huh?) wind to die down a little (1) As boys in the Little Karroo, a desert with extremes of hot and cold, we would on Wednesday afternoons after school watch the plane from the city arrive. The attraction was British tourists coming out onto the top step into that dry heat and keeling over. They used to put a hooded bench on the tarmac and station the co-pilot below the door to catch the passengers before they let them try to disembark. The bench was to prop up the fainthearts; a bizarre detail I remember vividly is that a porter stood by with a parasol. Can't say that I would consider that so funny now... |
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On Mar 23, 9:44*am, Andre Jute wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:33*am, John Henderson wrote: Andre Jute wrote: Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round Thank you, but it's Autumn here in the southern hemisphere - and a glorious Autumn at that. *30°C (86°F) here in Canberra today. John Yes, I've heard that from your fellow Canberry, Patrick Turner, already on RAT: "He, he, our coming winter might be just as cosy as your northern summer, and our weather leads us to the roads so that we are always recovering from a decent 70 miler, and with wheels never wet." Thanks, fellers. But I'm not so sure I'd survive your cycling summer if the autumn is 30 degrees (1). I've become accustomed to my weather, even in a perverse way attached to it; whenever I return to Oz, I find the summer unbearably hot. I suspect the mid-Westerners among the Americans who're always telling us about their appalling weather do so at least a little out of pride in their own hardiness. Spring made an appearance in the midwest USA this weekend. Brief though. Its now rainy and 50 F degrees this week. Although 50 and rainy is a typical midwest spring. Summers aren't too bad. It gets up to 100 F every now and then. And humid. But if you ride early in the day, its pleasant. And even the hottest days are better than not riding. Andre Jute Sitting inside in his cycling pants, waiting for the cold (spring, huh?) wind to die down a little (1) As boys in the Little Karroo, a desert with extremes of hot and cold, we would on Wednesday afternoons after school watch the plane from the city arrive. The attraction was British tourists coming out onto the top step into that dry heat and keeling over. They used to put a hooded bench on the tarmac and station the co-pilot below the door to catch the passengers before they let them try to disembark. The bench was to prop up the fainthearts; a bizarre detail I remember vividly is that a porter stood by with a parasol. Can't say that I would consider that so funny now... |
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On Mar 23, 8:02*am, "
wrote: On Mar 23, 9:44*am, Andre Jute wrote: On Mar 23, 2:33*am, John Henderson wrote: Andre Jute wrote: Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round Thank you, but it's Autumn here in the southern hemisphere - and a glorious Autumn at that. *30°C (86°F) here in Canberra today. John Yes, I've heard that from your fellow Canberry, Patrick Turner, already on RAT: "He, he, our coming winter might be just as cosy as your northern summer, and our weather leads us to the roads so that we are always recovering from a decent 70 miler, and with wheels never wet." Thanks, fellers. But I'm not so sure I'd survive your cycling summer if the autumn is 30 degrees (1). I've become accustomed to my weather, even in a perverse way attached to it; whenever I return to Oz, I find the summer unbearably hot. I suspect the mid-Westerners among the Americans who're always telling us about their appalling weather do so at least a little out of pride in their own hardiness. Spring made an appearance in the midwest USA this weekend. *Brief though. *Its now rainy and 50 F degrees this week. *Although 50 and rainy is a typical midwest spring. *Summers aren't too bad. *It gets up to 100 F every now and then. *And humid. *But if you ride early in the day, its pleasant. *And even the hottest days are better than not riding. Andre Jute Sitting inside in his cycling pants, waiting for the cold (spring, huh?) wind to die down a little (1) As boys in the Little Karroo, a desert with extremes of hot and cold, we would on Wednesday afternoons after school watch the plane from the city arrive. The attraction was British tourists coming out onto the top step into that dry heat and keeling over. They used to put a hooded bench on the tarmac and station the co-pilot below the door to catch the passengers before they let them try to disembark. The bench was to prop up the fainthearts; a bizarre detail I remember vividly is that a porter stood by with a parasol. Can't say that I would consider that so funny now...- Hide quoted text - In PDX on Saturday it was oscillating between sun breaks and showers. I was climbing around through the hills, sort of day dreaming up a two or three mile climb when I was caught by a guy I used to race with almost 20 years ago -- actually, he won all the local and regional races for 35 years, and I just happened to be pack filler in the same jersey from time to time. The guy is now 59 years old (seven years older than me). We road together for maybe ten miles, including another steep mile climb -- where he outsprinted me in the last 20 meters. Dropped by the first old dude of spring. Some things never change. It was fun chatting about the old days, though. -- Jay Beattie. |
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Jay Beattie wrote:
In PDX on Saturday it was oscillating between sun breaks and showers. I was climbing around through the hills, sort of day dreaming up a two or three mile climb when I was caught by a guy I used to race with almost 20 years ago -- actually, he won all the local and regional races for 35 years, and I just happened to be pack filler in the same jersey from time to time. The guy is now 59 years old (seven years older than me). We road together for maybe ten miles, including another steep mile climb -- where he outsprinted me in the last 20 meters. Dropped by the first old dude of spring. Some things never change. It was fun chatting about the old days, though. -- Jay Beattie. One friend I ride with is 12 years younger than I, and much bigger and stronger to boot. Can flat-out smoke me at will. HOWEVER, on some climbs, usually steep ones on long (40-ish) rides, if I can stay ahead or even near the top, I almost always can "sprint" (VERY loose terminology) by him and get to the finish first. (At least so far this year; he's prolly going to get in better shape shortly and the glory will be gone.) Sort of like when I used to run. Finally passed someone...and she didn't even trip me with her walker! Bill "bada bing" S. |
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"Jay Beattie" wrote in message ... On Mar 23, 8:02 am, " wrote: On Mar 23, 9:44 am, Andre Jute wrote: On Mar 23, 2:33 am, John Henderson wrote: Andre Jute wrote: Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round Thank you, but it's Autumn here in the southern hemisphere - and a glorious Autumn at that. 30°C (86°F) here in Canberra today. John Yes, I've heard that from your fellow Canberry, Patrick Turner, already on RAT: "He, he, our coming winter might be just as cosy as your northern summer, and our weather leads us to the roads so that we are always recovering from a decent 70 miler, and with wheels never wet." Thanks, fellers. But I'm not so sure I'd survive your cycling summer if the autumn is 30 degrees (1). I've become accustomed to my weather, even in a perverse way attached to it; whenever I return to Oz, I find the summer unbearably hot. I suspect the mid-Westerners among the Americans who're always telling us about their appalling weather do so at least a little out of pride in their own hardiness. Spring made an appearance in the midwest USA this weekend. Brief though. Its now rainy and 50 F degrees this week. Although 50 and rainy is a typical midwest spring. Summers aren't too bad. It gets up to 100 F every now and then. And humid. But if you ride early in the day, its pleasant. And even the hottest days are better than not riding. Andre Jute Sitting inside in his cycling pants, waiting for the cold (spring, huh?) wind to die down a little (1) As boys in the Little Karroo, a desert with extremes of hot and cold, we would on Wednesday afternoons after school watch the plane from the city arrive. The attraction was British tourists coming out onto the top step into that dry heat and keeling over. They used to put a hooded bench on the tarmac and station the co-pilot below the door to catch the passengers before they let them try to disembark. The bench was to prop up the fainthearts; a bizarre detail I remember vividly is that a porter stood by with a parasol. Can't say that I would consider that so funny now...- Hide quoted text - In PDX on Saturday it was oscillating between sun breaks and showers. I was climbing around through the hills, sort of day dreaming up a two or three mile climb when I was caught by a guy I used to race with almost 20 years ago -- actually, he won all the local and regional races for 35 years, and I just happened to be pack filler in the same jersey from time to time. The guy is now 59 years old (seven years older than me). We road together for maybe ten miles, including another steep mile climb -- where he outsprinted me in the last 20 meters. Dropped by the first old dude of spring. Some things never change. It was fun chatting about the old days, though. -- Jay Beattie. Jay, His initials aren't D.A. are they? Kerry |
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Jay Beattie wrote: On Mar 23, 8:02 am, " wrote: On Mar 23, 9:44 am, Andre Jute wrote: On Mar 23, 2:33 am, John Henderson wrote: Andre Jute wrote: Went out today without longjohns for the first time this year. Even took my jacket off. Now for some good rides, working up to a short tour. It's official: I've declared the spring open to all comers. Andre Jute I'd love to be a fairweather cyclist, if only the fair weather would hold year-round Thank you, but it's Autumn here in the southern hemisphere - and a glorious Autumn at that. 30°C (86°F) here in Canberra today. John Yes, I've heard that from your fellow Canberry, Patrick Turner, already on RAT: "He, he, our coming winter might be just as cosy as your northern summer, and our weather leads us to the roads so that we are always recovering from a decent 70 miler, and with wheels never wet." Thanks, fellers. But I'm not so sure I'd survive your cycling summer if the autumn is 30 degrees (1). I've become accustomed to my weather, even in a perverse way attached to it; whenever I return to Oz, I find the summer unbearably hot. I suspect the mid-Westerners among the Americans who're always telling us about their appalling weather do so at least a little out of pride in their own hardiness. Spring made an appearance in the midwest USA this weekend. Brief though. Its now rainy and 50 F degrees this week. Although 50 and rainy is a typical midwest spring. Summers aren't too bad. It gets up to 100 F every now and then. And humid. But if you ride early in the day, its pleasant. And even the hottest days are better than not riding. Andre Jute Sitting inside in his cycling pants, waiting for the cold (spring, huh?) wind to die down a little (1) As boys in the Little Karroo, a desert with extremes of hot and cold, we would on Wednesday afternoons after school watch the plane from the city arrive. The attraction was British tourists coming out onto the top step into that dry heat and keeling over. They used to put a hooded bench on the tarmac and station the co-pilot below the door to catch the passengers before they let them try to disembark. The bench was to prop up the fainthearts; a bizarre detail I remember vividly is that a porter stood by with a parasol. Can't say that I would consider that so funny now...- Hide quoted text - In PDX on Saturday it was oscillating between sun breaks and showers. I was climbing around through the hills, sort of day dreaming up a two or three mile climb when I was caught by a guy I used to race with almost 20 years ago -- actually, he won all the local and regional races for 35 years, and I just happened to be pack filler in the same jersey from time to time. The guy is now 59 years old (seven years older than me). We road together for maybe ten miles, including another steep mile climb -- where he outsprinted me in the last 20 meters. Dropped by the first old dude of spring. Some things never change. It was fun chatting about the old days, though. -- Jay Beattie. I raced for 6 years '86 to '93 as a veteran aged 38 to 44. Then I gave up bicycles for 13 years and came back again but with no interest in racing, and all I wanted to to was rebuild the body after 13 years of neglect. But some amoung the Sunday bunch of tourists I now ride with are not so easy to stay with. Its anything but leisurely and 30kph averages are sometimes attained. One guy does Audax rides which are endurance things of maybe 500km in a weekend, but I've never been attracted to that. At 62 I'm beginning to feel the strain of constantly having to work real hard to keep up with about 5 who are mainly 12 years younger and faster. One guy I could never beat 20 years ago turns up and I still can't beat him up hlls now. But along flat stretches i tire him out. Not many of the blokes I used to race are still around. Some still race though, and I see their race results in the newspaper. When the current veteran time trial champion rides past me I only have time to say "Goodbye"..... Patrick Turner. |
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