{"id":3297,"date":"2013-09-29T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seawind-network.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2013-09-29T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T07:23:33","slug":"homebush-to-prospect-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20130929\/homebush-to-prospect-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebush to Prospect – Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drew and Ivor – Guilford West en route to Prospect Reservoir<\/p><\/div>Last Thursday, I heard an interview on the radio with Bill Bryson. He was launching his new book “One Summer – America 1927”. I resolved to buy a Kindle copy on Amazon but even better – it was available on Audible. I’m currently in the middle of listening to it, and as I write this blog – I began to ponder. I wonder if those who lived in 1927 ever thought that in 2013 – our idea of a Saturday is to drive somewhere for breakfast, cycle 35 km to have lunch and cycle back again. To drop by a grocery to pick up roast chicken, ready to eat green salad or coleslaw for $22 and presto – dinner for four. Of course the house is a mess and the laundry has piled up – but hey it’s 2013.<\/p>\n

That’s just how my day went. Ivor and I were suppose to go bush walking but I suggested that we go cycling instead. Our next group cycling will go from Homebush to Prospect, so I thought we do some recci and find some back routes to make the ride “safe-ish”.<\/p>\n

I wanted another car free day, so I got up early and rode to the train station. Getting there, I discovered that there were track works. Bus were replacing trains and they will not take bikes. Not to worry, I’ll cycle to the next station without track works about 9 km away. But, on route, the cycle track is blocked with upgrades of the cycle path in progress. The alternate route is a lot longer which involves heading back close to home. I decided to go back home instead and drove to Homebush. Not conscious of the time, I got there too early, early enough to have a big breakfast.<\/p>\n

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Ivor and Rommel – Prospect Reservoir<\/p><\/div>Drew joined this impromptu ride. He has not been in the saddle for sometime but was not worried to ride 70 km as a first ride. We went to Prospect via a scenic route in Rhodes and UWS until we rejoined the M4 cycle way in Parramatta. I was following the cycle path when Ivor came running after me as I missed the turn off to Prospect.<\/p>\n

As we got to Randle Street, my bike started to feel funny – it’s as if I’m slipping on an oil slick. That’s when I learned that’s how it feels to have a puncture. In replacing the tubes, we discovered that I’m still using an oversized tube, folded to fit into the tyres as an emergency measure sometime last year. I forgot all about it and have been using it that way all this time. It turns out that my spare tubes are also several size smaller – but it’s all we have and will have to do for now. Hopefully – not to stay there for another year.<\/p>\n

We chose a very windy day to ride. The wind is so strong, we needed to pedal down hill. Our final destination was the Cricketers Arm Pub in Reservoir Road. A huge development of a ‘Wet-N-Wild’ theme park is in progress next to it, making the area very dusty. We had a big lunch and a nice pint of beer. It would have been perfect, except that we still have to cycle another 35km back to our cars. <\/p>\n

\nMy Garmin FR210 is at it again, it ran out of juice by 4:00pm and failed to record the last 30 minutes of the ride. Nevertheless – it is the one I’ve recorded for the Garmin Connect<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, I heard an interview on the radio with Bill Bryson. He was launching his new book “One Summer – America 1927”. I resolved to buy a Kindle copy on Amazon but even better – it was available on Audible. I’m currently in the middle of listening to it, and as I write this… Read More ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}