On working too hard and decent drivers

Its easy, too easy, to bitch about all the inconsiderate drivers, of which this city is over crowded, but today I ought to tip my hat to the guy (or woman?) in a Nissan Murano. They had an Ironman finisher border around the licence plate and they... you may need to sit down for this bit... they yielded to me! I was in the bike lane on the right hand side of the road, I had to turn left, and they let me in. It was a really cool experience, not feeling like a big target to drivers.

I have come to an important realisation regarding my body, if I exercise too hard, be it skate, cycle, swim or run, when I am near the wall my body throws out a sudden burst of power and then gives out almost completely. I've seen it happen a million times, well not a million, but a whole lot, while skating and it has happened once or twice riding. (Probably swimming too, but I hardly swim anymore, ever since I became a certified lifeguard I pretty much stopped swimming.) On a recent ride I was falling to the back of the pack, suddenly that burst kicked in and I was in front, way in front and then I hit a red light and that was that, from there to the coffee break I was struggling to keep above 20km/h, getting dropped was unavoidable despite generous offers from other guys in the BCC.

The same thing has happened in skating, actually a lot more often, the burst then the drop. I need to find a way to know, this burst is it, after that I am spent, unlike the other more modest bursts. If I knew that I could better ration my strength. Something for me to think about.

Okay I have to rant for a second on US Politics. It seems the Senior Senator from Arizona and Republican nomination for President has decided to suspend his campaign because he feels he cannot cope with the pressures of being a presidential nominee and manage the vast US economy (as one of the one hundred US Senators) at the same time. I've got to ask, what is he going to do if he is elected president and there is a foreign crisis during a period of poor economic performance? If ever there was a person less qualified to be president... his name would be George Walker Bush, governor of Texas circa February of 2000 through to the present time.