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Sunday Nov 18, 2018 #
10 AM
Cycling 1:46:00 [3] 37.2 km (2:51 / km)
Objective number one on the first day is to get a reasonably normal amount of sleep at a reasonably normal time. I thought I might have got this wrong when I needed to get up at 3am (one's internal functions usually don't adjust as quickly as sleep patterns), but got back to sleep without trouble and was still asleep when my alarm went off at 7, so hopefully that mission was accomplished.
Today's adventure was to hire a bike and get out on that. It was described as a "city bike" and was a bit heavier and slower than what I usually use, but worked OK (it had decent gears, which helped). I was never going to take on a col somewhere on this machine, but going along the southern shore of the lake was a decent workout, particularly in the first half with a headwind. A couple of modest climbs but otherwise reasonably level. Continued for a few kilometres into France just because I could, and then turned around to come back (would have preferred to do a loop but didn't see a good way to do it without spending time on the main highway). A few muscles were a bit tired in the second half (and again a hint of cramp at some points - so my system must still be a little unbalanced), but not too bad on the whole.
As expected, this was a good environment for riding - paths and bike lanes for the first few kilometres from the city centre, then a secondary road. In Australia a two-lane road with no verge and a bit of traffic would be a nightmare for cycling (you would probably do well to last five minutes without getting abused or worse), but Europeans - even the Porsche drivers who are commonplace in the lakeside towns of Geneva's outskirts - seem to have worked out that the world is not going to come to an end if you arrive at your destination ten seconds slower because you had to wait for a safe place to pass a cyclist.
Today's adventure was to hire a bike and get out on that. It was described as a "city bike" and was a bit heavier and slower than what I usually use, but worked OK (it had decent gears, which helped). I was never going to take on a col somewhere on this machine, but going along the southern shore of the lake was a decent workout, particularly in the first half with a headwind. A couple of modest climbs but otherwise reasonably level. Continued for a few kilometres into France just because I could, and then turned around to come back (would have preferred to do a loop but didn't see a good way to do it without spending time on the main highway). A few muscles were a bit tired in the second half (and again a hint of cramp at some points - so my system must still be a little unbalanced), but not too bad on the whole.
As expected, this was a good environment for riding - paths and bike lanes for the first few kilometres from the city centre, then a secondary road. In Australia a two-lane road with no verge and a bit of traffic would be a nightmare for cycling (you would probably do well to last five minutes without getting abused or worse), but Europeans - even the Porsche drivers who are commonplace in the lakeside towns of Geneva's outskirts - seem to have worked out that the world is not going to come to an end if you arrive at your destination ten seconds slower because you had to wait for a safe place to pass a cyclist.