{"id":12465,"date":"2024-11-16T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=12465"},"modified":"2024-11-16T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:43:31","slug":"the-desire-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-desire-to-participate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desire to Participate"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

I saw that there is a hike taking place nearby. I would have really liked to join it but I would have been participant eleven with a limit of ten people. I wanted to participate because it would have required walking to Nyon, and taking the train de St Cergue to St Cergue and then walking for a few hours, before taking the train back down and walking home. Both my carbon footprint and my travel time would have been small and the environment would have benefited. <\/p>\n

As I write this it isn’t that I don’t have a social thing to do this afternoon. I will go for a bike ride. I suspect that my bike really needs a service. I suspect that the rear wheel needs to be taken apart and cleaned so that the ball barings are as efficient as when they were new.<\/p>\n

Riding with slow people, this doesn’t matter, but this afternoon will be a hard ride. I will be slowed down, not by the lack of power in my legs, but the loss of efficiency in the bike. That’s why a walk would have been better.<\/p>\n

If things had gone to plan yesterday afternoon I would have swapped the old bike with the new bike, at least for this ride, before leaving the old bike for a service. It hasn’t been serviced in years and now it’s starting to show.<\/p>\n

I considered sneaking onto the activity. I could easily have walked to Nyon, and accidentally crossed paths with that group and joined in, under the radar. If I had had no backup plan I would have tried that, but since I knew about the bike ride for weeks I had no valid reason to "break rules". If I had been told "no, go away" I could have, with ease.<\/p>\n

The Weather<\/h2>\n

Yesterday was beautiful and sunny but cold and today is overcast and bland, so by not going on the walk I am not missing beautiful weather. The weather is good<\/a>, up above, but it will be cold. At this time of year you get the thermal inversion by going to the mountains.<\/p>\n

And Finally<\/h2>\n

My desire for that walk was based on it being local. I don’t know the participants and according to recent years whether I socialise or not, my solitude does not change.<\/p>\n

By going for the bike ride, as planned weeks ago I am breaking new ground, personally. I’m used to riding when it’s sunny and warm but I am not used to riding when it is barely above freezing. If I am not too uncomfortable during this afternoon’s ride, then I will have opened the door to winter cycling in cold weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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