If you thought that was funny...

Check out this post. I only wish I'd thought of it.

It would seem that last weekend's illness is taking longer to purge than expected. I thought I was OK on Monday, but the ride after work last night made me re-think that position. The only riding I'll be doing for the remainder of this week will be to and from work, as I make sure the recovery is complete. Then watch out this weekend! It's funny the way a person can carry on through some illnesses without being affected in the slightest, but this one seems to have floored me. I'm beginning to think it was more than just a cold -- which is actually a good thing in my view. That would still mean no colds since 2001!

Today I was reminded that fear has no place in urban cycling. On exiting a roundabout in Broadbeach, I was confronted with two lines of gridlocked traffic stretching right up to the next set of lights. Basically I had to exit the roundabout, but passing on the left of the left lane was not an option as it was a typical "Gold Coast" traffic queue (i.e. nobody in the left lane was actually queuing straight), I had to "split" the two lanes*. On doing this, the light changed and the traffic started moving while I was passing. A lot of people would have panicked in this situation, but I just judged the momentum of the acceleration, and picked my spot to change lanes, and did so, all within a split second. He who hesitates is lost, I'm still trying to figure out why people are taught to be afraid of such traffic, when it can be dealt with so easily with rational thought and a moderate amount of skill.

In other news, the bats are still flying south on the evening ride home from work, and I still haven't figured out to where they are migrating.

*NB: I was splitting two lanes of traffic moving in the same direction as opposed to riding contra-flow against the traffic. The latter is yet another dangerous and inefficient practice brought about by fear of traffic.