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The cycling chronicles

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Sometimes I live a little inside my head... Like when I ride to work I imagine that I'm effortlessly gliding through pristine wilderness on a vintage bicycle feeling refreshed, alive, and stylishly at peace with the world... Like the girl to the left... In reality of course I'm a heaving, bright red, mass of exhaustion, clambering down the road blindly at a snails pace. Occasionally cars stop and look sympathetically at me like I have some sort of terminal illness and someone once even offered me a lift - not my finest moment. To try and take my mind of this reality I devised a game to play on the roads.

It's very simple. The rules are as follows:

For a person I overtake that:
is much smaller than me/disabled: 1 point
is wearing jeans/heavy gear: 2 points
is bigger than me: 3 points
is wearing lycra bike gear: 4 points

For every person who overtakes me that:
is much smaller than me/disabled: -3 point
is wearing jeans/heavy gear: -2 points
is bigger than me: -1 points
is wearing lycra bike gear: -0 points
(and yes, I have been overtaken by a man with no legs, but he did have an exceptional 4 wheeled device and very muscly arms)...

Despite it being my invention and weighted in my favour, I'm still losing... but it's inspiring me to try and go that little bit faster... :-) Hmm... I probably shouldn't have written all that... Please dismiss as a brief interlude of insanity!

Labels: bike, cycling chronicles, game

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