Sunday Not-So-Funday

As you've probably picked up from the title, this post is about the ride I did on Sunday.  Yes, it's now Tuesday, and no I haven't done anything since then (although there is a really good intention to go for a ride before work tomorrow) but enough about that.

So after my ride on Saturday I wanted to try and get up to 100km for the weekend as I think I mentioned in my previous post.  Unfortunately, I didn't quite make it, falling about 20km short of that goal.

For a bit of a change I thought I'd try riding along the bikeway which runs beside the F3 (well at least that's what I think it's called).  I may have also slept in and not got on the bike until after 9am, which is pretty late in the cycling world.  And as soon as I start riding, I notice there's a lot of clouds.

Grey clouds.  Looming about, threatening to release the cargo of rain all over my freshly serviced bike, and myself.  But I decided to push on, call the weather's bluff as it were.  Well that was the theory.

I headed towards the freeway following the most simple route I could find, then once on the bikeway turned left to head towards Macquarie Park.  Riding along the bikeway was like riding in a literal concrete jungle for the most part, until Lane Cove where the freeway ended and where the scenery became a little more tolerable.  Apparently this comes at the cost of hills which, on the way away from home seemed to be all downhill - meaning the way home was going to be interesting...

After about 8km, the weather made it's bluff face more menacing, and after a single climb at Ryde I turned tail and went home.  Of course, riding up the hills I had gone down was not as painful as I had anticipated, and the weather had nothing up its sleeve.  Pretty disappointed on my lack of willpower, which is something that I will have to work on over the next couple of months.  And no photo as I wanted to get home before any dampening of spirits and clothes.