Born 10pm 28 April 2010. 3.35kg.

Thursday 11pm
Well, all packed. For some reason passport didn’t even make my packing list so lucky I remembered. I’ve studied the map so hopefully I won’t get lost. Guess I’ll still have my trusty Garmin “return to start” feature… Technically I’ve signed up for the 250km epic but still not sure whether I’ll take the detour at the junction and just go the 200km route. I’m expecting probably about 10hrs of riding on the trusty Genesis (*fingers crossed*) and probably about 2000m of climbing. Must say, not quite as excited about this sportive as the others. Not sure why. Maybe the excitement hasn’t kicked in yet. I guess Tour of Flanders had the cobbles and La Marmotte had the alps. Just not sure to expect from this one. Hopefully a relatively “easy” ride!

Anyway, bed time!

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Email from an online store in the UK after I enquired if my order had been delayed due to the recent European airspace shutdown:

Your order was dispatched on the 15th April, but due to the Volcano, we are quoting 28 working days for delivery as some of the Air Mail parcels have been sent via Road.

Norm – 622km
HY – 370km
Andrew – 190km
HP – 241km
Keith – 219km
DJ – 38km

Updated 26/4/10

YJOY
HY – 2328.94km
Geek – 1910.05km
Keith – 1867.44km
Andrew – 1768.63km
HP – 1092.21km
DJ – 355.50km

Ok, time to move on from my “one-hit-wonder” post status…

Alex and I made the tortuous bike path from Bulleen to Glen Waverley following East Link on Saturday.It was great fun.

For all you bike-path phobes out there, you should give it a try. As a matter of fact, I desperately implore you to take the route, so that there is at least one other person helping to ride through the tangle of cobwebs already forming on the maroondah highway pedestrian overpass. The lack of patronage is frightening.

I love a pedestrian overpass as much as the next bloke… what’s not to like? – pedestrian + heavy vehicle separation sounds like a good thing… in theory.

In practice, the effort and time wasted taking such a convoluted overpass makes any potential risk of a road fatality sound rather appealing. I make no claims to any actuarial credentials, but I would humbly argue that risk of death from accidental used-syringe impalement or red back spider bite whist overpassing said overpass would surely exceed that of catastrophic pancaking by semi-trailer…

But that’s just my opinion, and after careful consideration, maybe it was a good idea to spend a few lazy million on an overpass that nobody ever uses… where else can Rudd money go now that we can’t shovel them into flamable ceiling insulation?