We headed out at 130pm for a long ride. The weather was very sunny in the morning but surprisingly became cooler when we started. There was a strong tailwind and even some light overcast.
Route - Home, Upp BT, Mandai, did 2 loops, detoured to Woodlands to Alber's house to pick up something (beats burning petrol and driving over again!), Kranji, Neo Tiew, Brickland, B.Batok and home.
On our second Mandai loop, we witnessed a horrendous irresponsible act. A bunch of 6-7 kids on 4 bicycles were trying to get to Seletar Reservoir via Yishun Ave 4. From a distance, I could see their bikes zooming down slope. Then it occurred to me that they were riding on the opposing lane to the traffice direction. As they came down the slope, so did the cars, but on the other side of the divider. Suddenly, at the junction, the bikes turned left as the cars were turning right! So the bikes came down-left, and the cars down-right. Gosh! Not once, but 4 times as the bikes separately cut the traffic. The drivers horned, and one of the kids even showed his finger at the cars. My goodness, such a dangerous and hooligan act! It was amazing none of the bikes were knocked down.
Even after the junction, the kids rode in a zig-zag manner, spanning the leftmost curb to the rightmost curb. Incredulous! As we caught up with the kids, we scolded them. But the look on their faces told us that they thought they were not in the wrong. I really wondered how parents could give their children bicycles and not teach them basic road safety. I was not even talking about wearing helmets, reflective lights and so forth.
Anyhow, back to the rolling hills ride. 100km. Legs were so not conditioned. How was I supposed to repeat that distance in a race? Ooops.
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