Tag: rain
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Watching Rivers Dry Up
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn February I walked or ran along the Asse river that runs from the Jura down towards Nyon and it was flooding. Walking paths had to be diverted and trees found themselves surrounded by water like individual islands. I walked by the same river during my daily walk yesterday and the opposite…
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Lovely Rain for More Than Five Minutes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in months it is raining properly. We don’t have torrential rain, and we don’t have drizzle. We have proper rain. Proper river filling rain. Proper lake filling rain. It’s the type of rain that falls and hydrates the soil, the planets, the lakes and more. It’s the…
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A Run and an EV Charge
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you noticed how if an event is organised in the evening, long into the night, people see it as normal to participate. Have you also noticed how waking at the crack of dawn, to run, four towns away, is seen as lunatic, and crazy behaviour. We live in a society and…
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The Cancelled Saturday Plan Rain
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning you might have noticed quite particular. Yesterday it was drizzling. This meant that we could go for a run, despite the rain, and end, still dry. This morning however a bike ride was cancelled, or maybe even several. The reason is that it was wetting rain, or “heavy rain” as…
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Weather To Be trusted
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night at around 05:30 the alarm went off and either before or afterwards I heard lightning. I also heard very heavy rain. The question was whether the weather app was to be trusted. I could see that it would rain heavily while I walked from home to the meeting point but…
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Walking in Light Persistent Rain
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I walked in light persistent rain for around two hours and my trousers got a little wet. The rain was heavy enough for me not to be dry, but not heavy enough to soak me. During the walk I noticed, at one point, that the rain seemed to be aerosolised,…
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A Bike Ride and Noise Pollution
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday afternoon I heard some very loud banging. I thought that it was due to an idiot driving a farming machine into something solid and they were trying to fix the damage. As it continued it made me furious. It’s for this reason that I decided to spend the rest of the…
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The Altered Routine of Cycling in Autumn
Reading Time: 2 minutesRoutine is extremely important. With routine the question is not "whether you can be bothered" but "I will do this." You go from asking "if" to automatically assuming that on Wednesday morning you will ride, and sunday morning you will ride. If a ride is cancelled for A or B then you’re…
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On Rain and Using it as an Excuse Not To Cycle or Walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesBike rides have been cancelled because of rain, rather than wind or other factors. When it rains cyclists don’t want to ride because it gets their bike dirty and they have to clean it, lubricate it and more. With hikers rain is also an excuse to be lazy, within some groups. With…
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Autumn Weather and Flexibility
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith Autumn comes a change in weather. The days get shorter and the temperatures drop. Clouds come more often, and stick around. The result is that events that are scheduled are cancelled. Today the weather was good, but the event is scheduled for tomorrow. In a situation such as this I would…