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Day: May 24, 2020

Memorial Day Weekend – activity

Memorial Day Weekend – activity

Memorial Day weekend crowds and imminent arrival of a rather unfavorable weather front made me decide not to take my bicycle on the open road today. However as this is the start of another “goal” week and the likelihood of rain is high for the entire week, I dusted off the stationary bike and “set out” on my first journey of the week.

Heading my way today.

Clocking 1 hour and 15 minutes of cycling time (whilst going nowhere) I do, at least, feel that I accomplished something towards my weekly goal of 50 miles. Indeed, on the road, an hour and a quarter would take me around 13 miles and so that is what I have fed into my “MapMyRide” app to start the weeks’ training.

During this session I watched a YouTube video, courtesy of the Global Cycling Network (GCN), which made me quite nostalgic for Bonnie Scotland. The North Coast 500 is a step too far for me nowadays (actually I’d say, realistically, 400 miles too far) but it was certainly inspirational – link below.

Memorial Day Weekend – comment

Memorial Day Weekend – comment

Sunday, May 24th

Week 11 of the “Stay at Home – Save Lives” order and the lockdown is easing just in time to allow for the usual influx of tourist folks from the cities to turn our quiet little seaside town into a busy, belligerent, beach destination for the Memorial Day weekend. Huge queues at the grocery store, no room at the gas pumps, traffic backed up from the beach access roads. You could be forgiven for thinking everything is back to normal!

Holiday weekend syndrome is in full swing. On this occasion I suppose we should be grateful and sympathetic to the rowdy hoards who invade our normally quiet, pleasant, and polite space. After all they are bringing welcome and much needed commerce to the businesses of our town and as they have chosen our small section of paradise in which to spend their time and money we should reward them with happy smiles and polite greetings.

Try to remember that most of them don’t appear to understand the concept of social distancing and / or the advisability of adhering to the suggestion that facial masks should be worn in public. Many may also not be fully aware of the meaning of Memorial Day beyond it being a non work day for them. So smile, wave, and move on before anyone sneezes on you.