A bit late adding this route and Thoughts
End of third week thoughts – What touring cyclists think about?
As you are cycling along taking in the scenery, your mind tends to wander. You glance in the mirror and see a car approaching, you shout to your partner car back and then try and calculate in your head when it will pass you.
If you are travelling at 20 kph and the car is travelling at 100 kph and you saw it about 500 metres back how long before it will pass you? What is the formula?
If we drink every 10 minutes and we have 20 kms to go, how many times will I drink before we get to our destination?
It is very strange that my mind tends to wander onto math problems when I was never very good at math or particularly liked the subject.
Sounds like Calculus to me. And what is the length of the shadow you cast at 9 am., noon and at 5 pm? And what is the total distance you have travelled divided by the number of days you have been cycling, with and without counting rest days? Frigid cold here today (-21 C) and it seems to have snowed every day over the Christmas break. Enjoy the NZ weather, rain or shine!
We have cycled over 1,000 kms to date. Yes we are thankful for being in shorts and sandals every day.
Sounds like your putting way too much thought into this ride. I try not to think, it is less confusing that way.
Liquid thoughts when riding, flat straight roads 🙂
Just got through a week of minus 30C not including the windchill. Envy does not even come close. Keep up the posts. South Island is pretty barren compared to north, ESP on the east side, Kaikoura was neat, went whale watching on boat designed just for that purpose. Are you going to Mount Cook?
Still in shorts, even if it is a bit windy:) Couldn’t get on to a whale watching boat – too busy. We are trying to avoid anything that has Mount in the title. Not sure where we are going, we are taking a couple of days at a time and seeing how far we get. Christchurch is the next stop – 2 days to get there from here.