@ascentale @nickzoic @bikenite

#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes

I once fell asleep due to not eating/drinking enough on a roundabout in Milton Keynes! Police were good about it and insisted on coming with me to nearest supermarket.

My Dad (via cellphone) once had to map-read me home on a convoluted route when the River Riding burst its banks and I thought I was stuck. He knew the area backwards and was able to route me out on higher land

@MatthewNewell @ascentale @bikenite #bikenite I seriously underestimated a ride recently, thankfully a passing traveler filled up my water bottles[*] but I spent many kilometers wishing for a banana or a peanut butter sandwich ... and when I got to the coast road there was a shop selling banana and peanut butter smoothies[**], which I decided was a good omen and that smoothie rescued me :-)

[*] there was tank water I could have filtered, but it was pretty nasty looking and piss-warm from the sun ... thanks Jan from somewhere near Hamburg for the fresh clean water ...

[**] Anglesea General Store, pretty decent coffee too, just as well because it's a fair climb back towards Torquay ...

@nickzoic @ascentale @bikenite

The rejuvenating qualities of food and water in those circumstances is quite miraculous

@MatthewNewell @ascentale @bikenite #bikenite yeah and there's a big lesson, sometimes when you're really losing momentum and getting slower and slower it's better to stop and take a break and eat something so you can get back on it at a decent speed.

Actually I've got a whole theory of fractal breaks where you divide rides in half(ish) with a big break and half(ish) again with smaller breaks and so on down to just a periodic moment of mindful consideration of whether you feel like a sip of water or a jellybean.

@MatthewNewell @nickzoic @ascentale @bikenite

Be careful, they've been known condemn a rider to perpetually trying to finish a ride (half the ride, then half the remainder, then half the remainder etc and they never arrive!)