{"id":44850,"date":"2026-01-31T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=44850"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:24:46","slug":"on-noise-pollution-and-a-skipped-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/on-noise-pollution-and-a-skipped-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"On Noise Pollution and a Skipped Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

I know, without a doubt that if I ride with one group, especially if there are only 25 people, that it will be hard. It’s because of how hard I know the ride will be that I am not keen to join that group. despite this I still considered going for a bike ride this morning, until noisy neighbours made it impossible for me to have an early night.<\/p>\n

There is a bad habit among alcoholics that they need to make noise at night without considering that others may want to sleep. I use the label noot because the people are alcoholics but rather because, in my experience people who behave in a toxic, selfish manner, are usually fuelled by alcohol. They only made noise until midnight but that still scuppered any chance of me going for that ride.<\/p>\n

The Morning Fitness Tracker Visible Consequence<\/h2>\n

Both my Garmin Watch and Suunto watch told me that I was at a medium level of fitness this morning. If I had been able to go to sleep when I had planned to I could have been bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning, rather than fatigued.<\/p>\n

Cold and Grey<\/h2>\n

Another factor for my motivation to cycle being low is that it’s cold and grey, and that it’s a Saturday. When it’s cold and grey the roads are still wet and we can feel the cold during the bike ride. I don’t need to ride in the morning. I can wait until the afternoon has warmed things up again.<\/p>\n

I also have the freedom to ride tomorrow, rather than today. I can wait for the nice weather. On thursday the weather was the best it has been in weeks so I ran. If it had stayed good then I would have been tempted to ride.<\/p>\n

Bad weather encourages me to run and walk, rather than cycle.<\/p>\n

Tires inflated, Lights Charged and Kit Ready<\/h2>\n

Last night I had prepared absolutely everything, so I really expected that I would go for a bike ride today. If I had had a good night of sleep, and if I had been well rested then I am almost certain that I would have gone for my bike ride.<\/p>\n

Silver Lining<\/h2>\n

Despite skipping the bike ride I behaved as if I intended to go on the bike ride. I believe that if I had been able to sleep, as desired. I would have gone on the group ride. Since I did not, I am fresh to go for a solo Sunday ride tomorrow, when I feel that roads are safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>I know, without a doubt that if I ride with one group, especially if there are only 25 people, that it will be hard. It’s because of how hard I know the ride will be that I am not keen to join that group. despite this I still considered going for a bike ride this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[736,20,25,533],"tags":[7126,5707,733,1152,1682,5209],"class_list":["post-44850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-observation","category-social-networking","category-switzerland-2","tag-alcoholism","tag-apathy","tag-cycling","tag-noise","tag-rest","tag-selfish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44852,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850\/revisions\/44852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}