Lovely ride this morning, only the standard daily circuit of 11km but then I'm not as muscularly fit as Anto.
Interesting thing was that on a narrow country road I was nearly totaled by a badly driven delivery van going too fast and meeting opposing traffic just as it passed me on a road really not wide enough for two cars. The good thing about it was that I wasn't on the bike, having parked it in a driveway to paint a striking multi-layered flower on the verge. On the bike I would have been hit, at the very least broken ribs from the huge mirror. I escaped by stepping onto some farm wife's flowerbed and the truck brushed the back of my shirt, sending my heartrate up by about 10bpm. The driver coming from the other end had come to a dead stop in the driveway opposite to let the maniac in the van pass. She said to me, "Pity the camera on your bike isn't pointing at his licence plate. He's a menace."
A bit further I saw a pre-school child ride towards me on the wrong side of the road, it's mother running along behind for her exercise. The child gave me a loud "Hello!" but the mother had only enough breath to smile sweetly.
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