Probably don't keep reading if you are my wife or my mum...

So close this morning. So effing close. You know those brushes you have with a car, when your immediate reaction is whoa. Then you get 100m down the road and your brain has had chance to replay everything in slow motion, only this time the Range Rover didn't skid to a halt and all you can think is Fuuuuuuuuu.......

Yeah it was one of them.


It was one of those mornings, a should have stayed in bed morning. I rolled out of my drive for an easy spin, it is unload week after all. Hadn't flicked on my front light yet,still not sure why. A lady with two dogs jogged out in front of me. Phew close one, sorry about that, no harm done.

5kms down the road a bunch of stationary flashing lights indicating that one of the pack rides had pulled over. Guy on the ground, police car and ambulance not far up the road. Lots of people in Lycra looking concerned, but nothing looking to terrible. A quick chat with a guy at some lights, he didn't know what had happened either. Pretty innocuous section of road was his comment. Tell me about it, I sometimes do intervals here for that reason. A quick thought to myself that you can never be to careful, you never know afterall...

Much later on the ride, was drafting a guy down past the University of WA. Riding up to a roundabout (the one near Steve's for people who know Perth), we slowed down a bit, nothing coming. On the roundabout, car coming from the left, black Range Rover Sport, nice car a small part of brain thinks. The bigger part thinks he is coming fast, he will stop, he is not stopping. Screeeeeech.

Not sure who he would have got, me or the guy I was with. The other guys thinks he was clear, he thought the car was going to hit me. I thought the other way around, although now I am wondering. Pretty sure one of us would have ended up in an ambulance this morning either way.

I am wondering what the driver missed, was it my front lights or my orange jersey that caused the problems.

Note to self - don't wear invisibility cloak while riding

Or perhaps it is just the case that even the best drivers sometimes make mistakes.

Off to the pool tonight. I hope they are gentle.

Some mornings you should just stay in bed...