in message <
[email protected]>, Alan Holmes
('
[email protected]') wrote:
>
> "Simon Brooke" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
news:lir2q1-
>
[email protected]...
>> in message <
[email protected]>, Just zis Guy,
>> you know? ('
[email protected]') wrote:
>>
>> > Alan Holmes wrote:
>> >
>> >> travelled 84 miles in 2 hours 50 minutes, which was an
>> >> average of (if my arithmetic is up to date) 29.5 mph.
>> >> Bearing in mind that the bike was loaded for a
>> >> fortnights holiday, self catering and clothing for
>> >> that time, primus stove, paraffin, meths, water
>> >> container, milk and etc, that wasn't a bad average,
>> >> especially as the trip was across the Cotswolds.
>> >
>> > See what happens when you get the decimal point in the
>> > wrong place? You look like an eejit!
>>
>> Many years ago I did Kirkcudbright to home - thirteen and
>> a half miles - in a time I believed to be exactly thirty
>> minutes. Or, I believed, 27 miles per hour. Which is over
>> two hundred metre ridges, at sea level at both ends and
>> at only about 20m above sea level in the middle.
>
> Quite good for that journey.
>
> And I see nothing wrong with that sort of time, there used
> to be a very large number of cyclists in Scotland, and
> they managed good times.
Dear boy, I'm not surprised that you see nothing odd about
this sort of time, seeing that on your own evidence we know
that you are the holder of several cycling speed records. I,
however, am a mere mortal, and the idea that at any age and
any state of fitness I could have achieved that sort of
sustained speed over that sort of terrain is frankly
preposterous.
>> And I look at the journey now (it normally takes me an
>> hour, even on my road bike, even when I'm going well and
>> feeling good) and I just don't believe it. I think the
>> heroic trips of our youth are remembered through a fog of
>> golden self-delusion. OK, so I was a lot fitter then and
>> covered a lot more miles and I was certainly faster. But
>> that fast? I find it hard to believe.
>
> Why do you find it hard to believe, you knew how far it
> was and how long it took.
I know how far it is and I know how long I remember I
believed I had taken. My comment was attempting to indicate
that it is possible for human memory to, uhhmmm, somewhat
enhance one's recollections of one's own achievements. As,
indeed, your own posts bear eloquent testimony.
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