Reminds me of beginning a long hike and feeling the pain in your calves start too early in the first hour. And knowing that you have over a week to go. But you just do it rather than skulking back.
Had a full day hiking from Italy to Switzerland in torrential rain, too stubborn to stop at the start, then unable to find a flat spot to pitch a tent later. Obviously traffic and road conditions on a skateboard are one thing, but I think you'd be hard pressed to die from rain itself otherwise. Still, it's such a mental deterrent at times.
Did you take the detour along the Sea Cliff Bridge?
Yeah rather than taking the highway the whole way, I took the turn off in order to ride along the coast (and across the sea cliff bridge), through Coledale, Bulli etc; it probably added a lot of time but it was the way I had always wanted to go. Skateboarding on the highway is fun for about 10 minutes.
I couldn't help myself but LOL at that :) I'm envisaging this guy pushing himself to even get started, middle of the night, pouring rain, swollen ankles, muscles aching everywhere, almost being run over 100's of times in one night, cold and miserable - and then thinking 'hey, let's take a detour over the touristic route!'.
You'll see from their reply that they did take the detour and I would too. The Sea Cliff Bridge and coastal road are great; the highway is really bland!
Reminds me of beginning a long hike and feeling the pain in your calves start too early in the first hour. And knowing that you have over a week to go. But you just do it rather than skulking back.
Had a full day hiking from Italy to Switzerland in torrential rain, too stubborn to stop at the start, then unable to find a flat spot to pitch a tent later. Obviously traffic and road conditions on a skateboard are one thing, but I think you'd be hard pressed to die from rain itself otherwise. Still, it's such a mental deterrent at times.
Did you take the detour along the Sea Cliff Bridge?