Saturday "mental-anguish-fest" • October 10

[Lund]

The prospect of coming on this ride seems to be a source of severe anxiety and intense fright for many. Hence the new name.

But there's nothing to be afraid of. Really.*

6:00 from Cook Street Starbucks, as usual. The more, the merrier.




* Unless you're afraid of dizziness, vomiting and/or lactic acidosis. In which case I lied.

[chrisb]

This is always an excellent ride no matter what the people who don't go on it say about it.

Christian

[leftcoaster]

you lied....

[chrisb]

work is taking a bit longer than expected, might not make it to sbux by 6am

CB

[Lund]

As I was getting set to leave, my headlamp wouldn't turn on. (Turns out the rechargeable battery is shot.) So I grabbed the only thing I could find – one of those head-strap lights you use when you're camping. And it died before I got to Cook Street. No one else showed, so I was alone in the dark along the waterfront...and there were sections where I might as well have been riding blindfolded! Decided to pull the plug at Estevan.

[leftcoaster]

what a coincidence.........my light didn't turn on either......

[chrisb]

Got to starbucks late, went straight out shelbourne to ash and then followed the regular route to Sydney where I skipped past the airport and headed back.
fairly suffer-less sufferfest as I was not pushing too hard
There's always next week!

CB

[AJ Neale]

Suffer-Fest
Struggle-Fest
Anguish-Fest
Excuse-Fest ???

[Lund]

Excuse-Fest ???

Sadly, Andrew, you nailed it.

So next weekend will be the "no-excuses-fest"!

S

BTW...what's your excuse for not being out this morning?

[AJ Neale]

Me? ...... I was asleep.

[Claire]

FWIW, I did get 100k in last Saturday while you guys were languishing in bed/dead-light-land. Sufferfest of one. And I bought coffee for everyone at the end!