Consecutive ranting.
Jun.05, 2006, filed under Miscellany
My right knee, which I creamed so thoroughly bunny hopping Shackleton down at Elie a couple of weeks ago, is now too painful to go for my Monday swim. It hurts when I put weight on it with the leg twisted, or when I do breastroke kick, and I don’t think I’m up to doing 40 lengths at crawl pace so today I am resting it.
I can still run, though, and cycling isn’t painful as long as I go easy on the leg braking, so that’s not so bad.
Scotrail have done the singularly crap thing of failing to provide any trains capable of getting a cyclist into Edinburgh for 0830 on a Saturday morning. How Frood and I are supposed to get to the start of the Edinburgh – St Andrews is beyond me. We’re not bloody riding there — we’re already looking at 20 miles more than everyone else just to get home, and the Ottery one has never done a century. It would be a bit much to expect him to ride the 50-odd miles into Edinburgh beforehand.
Access 2000 is so much more of a pain that the previous version. I’m on my third solution for adding new data using a combo box, and I’m still getting errors (type mismatch in this one, no matter what I do). It was so much easier before.
The Sustrans route up the side of the A91 between At Andrews and Guardbridge sucks chunks. Not wanting to go the off road way we started on the road but after a rather close shave with an angry Jaguar X-type, we moved onto the (at the time) decent looking track alongisde. It wasn’t 2m wide but the surface was good.
Within quarter of a mile it had become a 1.5m wide pavement partially obstructed by bushes, When we were on the approach to Guardbridge we were confronted by 6 inch dropped kerbs at every junction. Back onto the road we went.
And to think folk wonder why I am so impolite about the so-called ‘National Cycle Network’.
Finally: people. Just… people. Grrrr!
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