Juneathon 2009 Day 24 – Cycling, cows & secret lovechild

I slacked yesterday, I’m not doing very well with this Juneathon thing but I was just soooooooooooooooooooooo tired, I could hardly keep my eyes open and I didn’t go to the running club either, oops.  But as today was nice and sunny, I thought I’d take the Pashley out for a few miles, stopping off at the deli on the way round.  I spend what seems like about three weeks gathering together my camera, phone and money and my camera switches itself on and there’s a photo of a baby on there and I think WHAT THE FUCK? why is there a picture of a baby on my camera? and I don’t recognise the baby and I think, well, I wouldn’t do, I don’t know any babies and then I think maybe Shaun borrowed my camera to take a photo of his secret lovechild and forgot to delete it and I think oh no, I’ll have to pack my bags and move back to London citing reasons of unfaithfulness and it’s our first anniversary today and everything and finding out he’s got a secret lovechild will put a bit of a downer on things, and then I decide Shaun hasn’t got a secret lovechild as he is as keen on babies as much as I am, which isn’t very much at all really and then I remember that it’s the camera I bought secondhand off eBay to replace the broken one and it must be the original owner’s baby and therefore nothing to do with secret lovechildren and I don’t have to pack my bags and go back to London citing reasons of unfaithfulness and I put the camera, phone and money in my waistbag then get my Garmin and lock and eventually get the bike out of the garage and then go back in for the key to the lock as that would help if I want to lock my bike which I do when I go into the shop as if anyone stole my bike I would cry and I put on my Garmin and my dorky hat that will hopefully stop my head from getting splattered all over the road if I fall off and I go round to where the cows are and I stop to take a photo and my camera says memory full and I think how can it be full, I haven’t taken any photos and so I delete the photo of the baby that probably isn’t Shaun’s secret lovechild and take a photo of the cows and I get back to the village and wonder where to lock my bike and there’s a bike against a lamp post but not locked and I think there’s no way I’m not locking my bike up but there’s nowhere for me to lock it to, so I just lean it against the wall and lock it and hope no one steals it and carries it away and I go into the deli and pick up what I want and I’m worried about my bike and the girl behind the counter is taking ages to serve the people in front of me and I don’t want my bike to get stolen and I get impatient and put back the stuff I wanted to buy and go back outside and my bike hasn’t been stolen and I unlock it and go back the long way round to go home and I get to the tree and decide to carry on and go further and I see a field full of little blue flowers and I get my camera out and it says memory full and I think how can it be full, I’ve only taken one picture of some cows and I wonder if it’s on the internal memory and not the memory card and I go through all the settings but can’t find a memory setting and so I go to take the memory card out so I can put it back in again and see if that fixes it and I open it and there’s no flipping memory card in there and I think ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I must have left it in my computer and then I think oh shit, I don’t remember putting it in Shaun’s computer so it must be in my computer that’s gone to the computer hospital and so that’s probably the last I’ve seen of that then and then I text Facebook to tell it what a fuckwit I am and then I think aha, I can take pictures on my phone and so I do but I haven’t got the software installed on this pc so I can’t upload them and then I get to where I usually turn right and Shaun said something about where turning left goes but I can’t remember what but I turn left anyway for a change and after a while I get to a busy main road and I wonder if it’s our road but I don’t really know and I think I don’t want to go down there in case it goes on for miles and miles and and there’s no pavement or anything and so I turn round and go back the way I came and I get to a turning and I wonder if I should turn off there or just keep going and I can’t remember which way I came and I go past a few houses I don’t remember seeing and I think I’ve gone the wrong way and just as I’m about to turn round and go back I realise I’m at the point where I turned off in the first place and I think shall I go home or shall I carry on and do my seven mile route? and I decide to carry on and do the seven mile route which is probably about five miles from here and I’ve already done 9 miles and as I’m going up a steep bit a cyclist overtakes me and I think show off and I spend the next four miles trying to catch him up and as I go over any bumps my bell keeps dinging and I hope he doesn’t think I’m dinging him and as we get back to the road, he turns left and I turn right and go home and I’ve done 15.5 miles which I think probably counts for Juneathon ok today.

Splits

Stats day 24 (cycling)
Distance: 15.51 miles
Time: 1:37:24
Speed: 9.6mph
Calories: 425
Secret lovechildren: 1
Memory cards I’ll probably never see again: 1
Cyclists overtaking me: 1
Cyclists reovertaken by me: 0
Juneathon’s completed: 21/30