My June Rides (week 23)

Rides this week: 2.5

Miles this week: 58.54
Weekly Average: 2.9
Public transport days: 2.5
Oyster costs: £0.00


This week did not start terribly well. I had to train in to work on Monday morning to take my kit back to work and after my visit to Hants and IoW on Saturday. I then took the bike home on Monday evening so got back into the swing, sort of.

Sunset over the Thames

On Tuesday there was a serious fire at the Aldwych. This resulted in the roads in the area being closed by the police, who with their usual lack of helpfulness were completely useless about directing anyone to alternative routes. A case of “I don’t care where you you’re trying to get to you aint comin’ past ‘ere.” The police do themselves no favours in such circumstances. What can be the cost of a few helpful signs to direct folk to where they are trying to get; particularly for the tourists.


Anyway eventually worked my way over to Whitehall and then over Westminster Bridge and joined my usual ride at St George’s Circus; it added about .5 of a mile to my journey.


On Wednesday I accompanied Mrs TyT to hospital for her pre-med; operation on Monday to get the wire out of her arm. She dropped me off at Clapham Common and I took the tube in from there and the train home in the evening after an evening engagement.


Cycled in on Thursday but on emerging from the Kingsway Hall at 2100 hrs found that the rain was coming in down in rods. This was pure whimpery. I caught the bus and travelled home in the warm and dry. I shudder to think of my lack of moral fibre – Oh the shame!


Friday of course is a train morning still feeling very hangdog. Then on bike for the Friday evening commute. Set off in a light rainfall which became steadily worse and worse the further south I travelled. I only had a thin top on and by the time I got home I was absolutely soaked.


Not a very satifactory week at all really…

TyT