living on the edge

is riding at 5:30 in the morning without a headlight. Oh, I have bright blinkys on the front back and side but they don't show me the road. My headlights are on the fritz (what a term) and so I have been sticking to lighted city streets. Fortunately I have yet to come across the odd baseball-sized rock or two-by-four in the road. Riding in town is a challenge, it's hard to get a good rhythm going and my heart rate oscillates wildly. Can you say low level interval training?

a letter not sent:

Motorists Flout Safety, Persist in Driving Rural Routes

Dear Editor:

Many rural routes have have blind corners, steep hills, no road shoulders and formidable ditches as deep as 15 feet*. Petrol-powered car drivers have for years driven them, since auto clubs and transportation departments have published maps with these roads listed on them. These rural roads have the highest fatality rates for motorists of any in the state.

On a recent weekend, thousands of these motorists drove down these roads going in both directions. None drove at a safe and sane rate of speed which would render a blind corner visible and a steep hill, safe. A vehicle, no matter how large, gives no one umbrella protection to ignore common sense.

How many drivers of these roads live in rural areas yet commute daily on these death roads to their jobs in the city? The safety of all roads would increase greatly if they would move to town and ride the bus (or a bike). Why do they insist on driving these dangerous roads? Didn't we build the Interstate 70 for motorists to have a place to drive their cars?

*With thanks to Mr. Ted Horst and his letter in the Columbia Daily Tribune, September 28, 2005

lost my old blog

Here's the link...
musingsbytherev.blogspot.com
Haven't updated it in a long time and can't remember the password etc...

Take a look. Some stuff there I like