Everyday Cycling

I realised that I had ridden everyday during this recent heatwave we had, some days picking up my daughter and a load of shopping and heading home in 40 degree heat, on a very heavy bike. All in all riding in the heat is not too bad, I drink heaps of water and on the last day of the heatwave where I rode about 60km as it hovered around 40, I had a plastic spray bottle with me full of water, bit of my bicycle air conditioning system!

I think that a lot of people have isolated themselves through lifestyle choices that distance them personally from experiencing extremes of weather, as if this experience was a bad thing. They focus on discomfort as opposed to achievement, and do not seem to be able to cope with the weather (the natural world)and changes in this weather. This is particually apparent in a city like Adelaide where we have such mild weather really, yet people complain about the heat in summer and the cold in winter.

Easier to shut themselves away in their cars and not worry about the real world, isolated through technology, the ideology of automobile use reinforcing the distance and conectivness to issues out side of the self.

And it was only the weather!!