Completism - Saturday, April 27
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COMPLETISM
It's a bike ride.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Departing California Donuts #21 at 9pm
Sometimes the weather sneaks up on you and ruins your plans, and then sometimes it just waits for you to show up, letting you realize that your plans were ruined from the start. "Slow rain," they call it, "the white stuff," knee-deep for miles - those miles, in particular, over which you had planned to ride your bicycle. Maybe you make a snowball and toss it half-heartedly over the side of the mountain. Maybe you make another and throw it - more deliberately, this time - up the road, up there where you'd planned to go. It disappears, snow into snow. Ah, well, what can you do? Maybe, like the weather, you can wait.
Soooo... our apologies if you were psyched about doing some overnight bike camping this weekend, but it's not going to happen, or at least, its' not going to happen with us. We're postponing the completion of Passage #400, with the camping and the pizza and all that, until later (maybe in May?) and doing a "regular" Completism ride this month. It looks like a nice one: short; flat; exploratory; loosely conceptual. What's not to love? Here is how Sean described Passage #375 - Grade F Book Report:
Like a number of our rides over the years, this week's route is based on a book. Unlike those other rides, however, we didn't actually bother to read this book.* And, though one is purportedly in production, there isn't even a film adaptation we could've watched yet. Oh well. As a book report, this route will almost certainly fail.
However, by many accounts, the premise of said book is the best part of it anyway. And we have read the premise. The ride is really more of a loose interpretation of that — more of a blurb report than a book report, you see. And, as such, we expect it to get high marks!
* J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island
(~23 miles; pretty flat)
COMPLETISM
It's a bike ride.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Departing California Donuts #21 at 9pm
Sometimes the weather sneaks up on you and ruins your plans, and then sometimes it just waits for you to show up, letting you realize that your plans were ruined from the start. "Slow rain," they call it, "the white stuff," knee-deep for miles - those miles, in particular, over which you had planned to ride your bicycle. Maybe you make a snowball and toss it half-heartedly over the side of the mountain. Maybe you make another and throw it - more deliberately, this time - up the road, up there where you'd planned to go. It disappears, snow into snow. Ah, well, what can you do? Maybe, like the weather, you can wait.
Soooo... our apologies if you were psyched about doing some overnight bike camping this weekend, but it's not going to happen, or at least, its' not going to happen with us. We're postponing the completion of Passage #400, with the camping and the pizza and all that, until later (maybe in May?) and doing a "regular" Completism ride this month. It looks like a nice one: short; flat; exploratory; loosely conceptual. What's not to love? Here is how Sean described Passage #375 - Grade F Book Report:
Like a number of our rides over the years, this week's route is based on a book. Unlike those other rides, however, we didn't actually bother to read this book.* And, though one is purportedly in production, there isn't even a film adaptation we could've watched yet. Oh well. As a book report, this route will almost certainly fail.
However, by many accounts, the premise of said book is the best part of it anyway. And we have read the premise. The ride is really more of a loose interpretation of that — more of a blurb report than a book report, you see. And, as such, we expect it to get high marks!
* J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island
(~23 miles; pretty flat)
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