Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Day 5

First of all - about the service - the main problem actually was the stretched speed thingy
integrated -long lost - MP3 player was just an extra :D

the review ;)
15km per day :)

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Trip from work to Old Town Hostel Pub
the easiest part - day theme - to learn how to maneuver at the speed 5-6 km/h because there are a lot of people that do not give a damn that there is someone on a bike
* D;E;F i thought i will ride there - but than i noticed a police car and decided that i'll take the next street :D
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So from the pub i made the round to check out id someone else i know is in the nearest pubs
and then about 23:30 i went for my "15 km walk"
For unknown reasons i did turn away from Tilta street - point E. I wanted to skip the street i took the other day . I lost the sense of direction - i guess...
Between points G and H i started to panic... Sarkandaugavas street did not sound promising - especially if you' re on the bike about the midnight in the part of city you do not know...
Point H - beer producing company "Aldaris"... that started to freak me out... vent further on with a hope that now it's the right directions - no regular people on the streets... no one to who i could ask - where to go....
Point I to K... feeling the dooms day pretty near... Tvaika street .. no, no, just not that street - people talk that on that street there is the facility for mental illnesses...
Point K i saw the end-stop of 5th tram - that's not good, that's not good at all... i choose to go in the direction of a Ezera street - i thought i spotted a man on the street... when i got there - the man was missing - i went on the same street...
Point L - the salvation. there the phone box with the registry book... the maps was still in there... got pretty shocked when finally realized how damn far i am from the point i thought i might be.. checked the map - I need to get to the Viestura prospekts... that's what i went for...

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I crossed the rails that actually crossed a pretty normal street - just Google map does not think that way
Point A - another wrong decision. (not the last one) i turned left and went for a wrong direction, again... got to the bridge - recognized it... turned the bike around... for a moment felt miserable... my legs did hurt... and that, i thing, already where some 13-15 km of pedaling...

went back - finally saw a sign - "centrs 10" speeded up... the walkroads ended... took the road... speeded up - there's no way i'm gonna ride with speed less than 20 km/h
Point D - there are something good in this world - i recognized the previous days route...
Point E - another bad choice of mine ... instead of riding good road where i could ride fast - i took a chance and choosed very icy street with lost of snow.... Point F... lost control of a bike, back-tire slided and i fell for the first time with the bike... i can only added that i landed very softly - that was unexpected...

the rest of a road was the old route - do not mess with the road you know - atleast you know it... bridge went well
after 01:30 finally got home.. :)
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