MAY 12th! This sites birthday!
Also, the anniversary of the day I crashed my bike in turn sending me to the hospital – it was merely a flesh wound! (2023)
And secondly, the day I did the Fred Whitton Challenge. A good effort! (2024)
Why care? Good question…. It needs a little context.
It’s 6am, 12th of May 2024. I’ve nearly shit myself twice from the nerves, all I can taste is pesto pasta from carb cramming during the car journey on the way to Grasmere. Then the little voice starts – “this time last year you crashed your bike… I wonder if it will happen again today”.
I didn’t. I finished that ride! In 9 hours and 30 minutes too, and I cycled the whole way up Hardknott pass. And yes, it was my personality for a couple of months afterwards.
My point being that my brain has funny ways of linking memories together, and May the 12th seemed set in my mind to become the day something big would happen on the bike. As sweet as that may be, it has meant many rides seem to get cut off from being remembered because the “12th link” (or their lack of link I suppose.
This website is here for me to make note of the rides that don’t get locked in my brain by the 12th link, or any other odd way of remembering through semantic links. This website is here to catch the memories as they fall out my sieve head.
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