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Saturday Feb 11, 2017 #
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After the ride I was talking with Jo while being waiting to be picked up, and Lewie (who is still sufficiently excited about having started pre-school that he was wearing his uniform on a Saturday morning) asked us what we were talking about. I thought that explaining how the National Electricity Market works (or more accurately, doesn't work) to a four-year-old was beyond my capabilities.
8 AM
Cycling 1:34:00 [3] 36.0 km (2:37 / km)
Nice ride from Aranda out to Uriarra Crossing via Coppins, then back to Shep and Jo's place to drop the bike off. Went out early to miss the worst of the heat but still seemed to be towards the later end of the cyclists, who were out in abundance, in numbers ranging from ones and twos to a 30-strong, identically-dressed peloton. Saw Shep and Ian Prosser on the way. Still didn't have the confidence on this bike to let myself go on the downhills, but pretty solid for the rest of it, including the climbing.
This used to be familiar territory but not for a long time - I think the last time I was down at Uriarra Crossing was for a school camp at the old Camp Sturt (which wasn't rebuilt after the 2003 fires). Also not rebuilt after the 2003 fires was the western side of the Stromlo forest, where I spent a lot of time mapping in the early 1990s (before deciding that mapping wasn't really my thing) - this forest had quite low visibility and was a lot of fun. Slightly odd was the appearance of signs for 1-hour parking and a bus stop kilometres from the nearest bus route, opposite the old Bluetts Pines - my guess is that that's where some shops are going to be built and they decided to put the signs up early.
Left Canberra this afternoon, stepping onto the tarmac at almost the precise moment that Canberra reached its equal second highest temperature (41.6). I then went home for more or less long enough to swap summer clothes for winter ones and am now on my way to Geneva for a couple of weeks.
This used to be familiar territory but not for a long time - I think the last time I was down at Uriarra Crossing was for a school camp at the old Camp Sturt (which wasn't rebuilt after the 2003 fires). Also not rebuilt after the 2003 fires was the western side of the Stromlo forest, where I spent a lot of time mapping in the early 1990s (before deciding that mapping wasn't really my thing) - this forest had quite low visibility and was a lot of fun. Slightly odd was the appearance of signs for 1-hour parking and a bus stop kilometres from the nearest bus route, opposite the old Bluetts Pines - my guess is that that's where some shops are going to be built and they decided to put the signs up early.
Left Canberra this afternoon, stepping onto the tarmac at almost the precise moment that Canberra reached its equal second highest temperature (41.6). I then went home for more or less long enough to swap summer clothes for winter ones and am now on my way to Geneva for a couple of weeks.