Month: December 2025

  • Breaking the Lethargy Habit

    Breaking the Lethargy Habit

    With just one day to go, I got in my first ride of December, and most likely my last ride of 2025. The day dawned cold, and I slow-rolled the start to allow things to warm up a bit. The forecast high was 16C, and I knew if I was dressed for 2C at the…

  • New Garmin photo dump

    New Garmin photo dump

    In the end, the Garmin 1040 mentioned in last week’s ride wrap-up didn’t have support for multibyte characters, which meant all the place names (once I’d loaded the map of Japan) looked like this: ����. So back it went, and today a spiffy Garmin 1050 arrived, with the Japan map loaded out of the box.…