On the road a-gain

Being Sunday, and being in the midst of a rather torrid training period for The Double Century Project, a few of us went cycling again this morning. It’s become a little bit of a routine, and has gradually clocked an impressive distance. Not only distance mind you – we’ve been into Cape Point a few times, seen more of Simonstown and Kommetjie than I’m used to, and today road a cracker of a route from Constantia, through Sea Point, around Camps Bay, over the newly opened Chappies, around Slangkop, down Smitswinkle and back to Constantia. Certainly finding it easy to understand why the tourists continue to flock here en masse.

So, despite the strong and variable wind, my trip computer showed 123km and I’m happy to report a really great ride and reassuring recovery today. It was interesting to note how easily I was able to contemplate this sort of distance after the psychological win of having done 150km last weekend – strange how the mind works (or my mind at any rate…)

Skip back a day, and we were all on the far side of the False Bay. A friend’s 30th inspired us to spend the day in Betty’s Bay, and we-4 enjoyed a visit to the Stony Point penguins, a Potjie fest and chill-out (ta Adrian) and later a wander on the beach – really taking advantage of the great weather we’ve been having. X-Trail is averaging around 5.7l/100 for these sorts of jaunts – a welcome contribution!

To finish the weekend off, we hosted a braai, I went to watch the very exciting F1 and then stayed up unnecessarily late to write this entry. Sleep beckons (but still the photos upload…)