Just returned from the second-to-last lesson. Glowing of pleasure and happiness over here.
My original instructor agrees with the one from last weekend: yes, we're in a good place for the exam this Friday. 🥹
The rest of this week will likely feel simultaneously too slow and too fast. I can't wait, but I also can't wait for this to be over 😂
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Womp wommmmp. Failed the final exam this morning. Definitely was one of my better rides, but the person administering the exam failed me for riding over white road markings (pedestrian crossings / arrows) too often.
My instructor linked this to some hesitant road positioning which may have underlined this for the examinator.
It is what it is. Onwards to early next year. 😕
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Whenever the next exam date is, it'll be in dead winter. As I prefer having living fingertips by the end of it, I figured I might as well get these warm bois 🥰
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Wednesday was my first time back on the road since the failed 🏍️ exam. As always: it was lovely to ride. Good to build up more experience in dark winter nights.
'Annoyingly' I did very well. Wish that important ride earlier was like this, hahaha.
One thing did pass a test: these heated gloves! My finger tips were still good after 2 hours in ~2 °C conditions. #nospon, can recommend.
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Had a riding lesson this afternoon, and it was so good for the soul once again. We focused on a lot of the slow manoeuvres to make sure that all looks decent.
Enjoyed a bunch of delicious twisty dike roads, resulting in the face below. Ugh, I love this so much 🥰
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I was out on two pretty wheels tonight for two hours from 4:30pm.
Fairly unfriendly conditions! 0 °C + fog + dark, about 500m of sight. Quite the eye-opener what such humid coldness does to focus, even with proper winter gear.
Now I know better how that affects me and what I need to pay extra attention to if I end up in those conditions again.
Not the easiest ride but overall I did okay and learned things :)
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Had a late lesson today, 6pm-7:40pm. Though I was well-rested and the conditions were OK (it was dark, 3 °C and slightly rainy, visibility was good) I wasn't in my element.
I think I'm not comfortable in the dark and it messes with my basics, like shoulder checks and keeping/creating distance. I really messed up in those departments a few times today.
Learning's not a linear process. Still: this is annoying.
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Anyway: we'll do the next lesson(s) during daytime again. So if my feeling is right, then that'll bring me back to my usual self.
Doesn't mean that I'm not annoyed by this! Because I am. 😅
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@db It sucks, but on a bike you'll keep having days where you very consciously have to get your shit back together to ride well. Cold, dark, wet, stress, whatever has a big impact and sometimes you only notice when you are well underway and you do something stupid. At those moments you need to recover the mindfulness that riding requires. Or this is all just projection and it's just me ;-) Keep it up!
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