Alec Baskaya

The Journey and the Destination (a memory from June 2011)

alecbaskaya — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:29:49 +0000

Summer Solstice 2011 was a superb day. Ingredients included sun, blue sky, heat and after-work road racing in the New Forest National Park. Beautiful, hard, pure racing with a breakaway that stayed away resulting in a handful of much needed points for me.

But no less enjoyable was the journey home. Using a deserted A36 I crossed the sweeping vastness of Salisbury Plain as the daylight dwindled and expired.

Dead legs

alecbaskaya — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:58:55 +0000

A4

alecbaskaya — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:21:20 +0000

The physical embodiment of the word ‘rough’ lies between Batheaston and Corsham. Hell on earth/tarmac/concrete/gravel/raised metalwork.

02/01/12: Psychoweather

alecbaskaya — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:22:29 +0000

Highway 368 Revisited

alecbaskaya — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:33:33 +0000

23rd December 2011: Started training ride by cycling from Bath on A368 towards Blagdon. Torrential mid-winter rain breaches gloves… initiates localised hypothermia…. rushed retreat… anger… sulking… despair.

28th December 2011: A368 successfully revisited, forming part of a loop around the Mendip hills. Sunshine and double digit temperatures help seal psychological wounds created 5 days prior.

12 degrees of happiness.

alecbaskaya — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:09:32 +0000

Porridge

alecbaskaya — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:12:31 +0000

Turbo

alecbaskaya — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:36:00 +0000

Enemy. Friend.

Winter fuel

alecbaskaya — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:06:40 +0000

No long winter ride is complete without a few bananas. Gonna be getting through a lot of these in the coming months.

The Yorkshire Overtake

alecbaskaya — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:26:59 +0000

A lovely phenomenon. Yorkshire, thank you.