It’s amazing how different some places can be depending on when you’re there. I’ve noticed that if I vary the time that I’m riding to or from work, even by half an hour, my surroundings can be quite different.
I can cycle at one time and I’ll mostly see other cyclists that are obviously heading to work. If I pick a slightly different time, I’ll see riders, walkers and joggers out to improve fitness.
It’s almost as if there’s a roster that no one told me about that maps out when different kinds of people can use the shared path network for different purposes.
It was quite different again yesterday. I don’t normally ride that route on the weekend but I had to head in to work early in the afternoon and everything looked so different.
This time it was all families enjoying a ride together. There were smiling children giving their trainer wheels a good workout followed by mums and dads on bikes that only ever see the light of day on weekedns. There were also large groups of people picnicking beside the river or just sitting and enjoying the view. Many of the pedestrians seemed to have lost all sense of direction as they wandered across the path. My bell got a reasonable workout as I warned walkers that I was about to weave past them. It was a very different atmosphere.
I wonder how much we miss by sticking to our normal routines. Have you varied your routine to find a very different outlook?
Maybe all we need to do to break the rut is to go to the same places but adjust our routines a little.
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Great post!