That video is one of my nods to 'diversity'. The general view of Audax is inherently 'spineist', and fails to acknowledge the role of invertebrates in the whole experience. I'm not going to exclude ants, simply because they're lacking in backbone.
Mammalian chauvinism ensures better representation for cats, dogs and sheep. But I'm constantly aware that there's a whole natural world that we're interacting with, especially when you get a puncture on the Scottish West Coast.
Being careful not to exclude those born as mammals but choosing to identify as reptile (Trumpus trumpus)
I've had a couple of references to the Donald on video, but no actual sightings.
I did get the President of Randonneurs USA, Rob Hawks, comparing French villages to Penguins on PBP, and a reference to the hilliness of Windsor-Chester-Windsor from Idai Makaya, on a film I called 'Tales from Randonesia'.
Randonesia is a compound word from Randonneur, and Amnesia. Obviously there's a reflection of the idea that long rides are like childbirth, so I like the reference at the end, which applies to those repeating the experience.
But there's also a sense in which you have to blind yourself to the scale of the task in hand to be able to undertake it. There's only so much detail that's useful once the craziness takes hold.
Clearly there's a long buildup to events, and there's plenty of time to reflect on what happened, but I'm most interested in how people behave during the event, when both PBP and Windsor Chester Windsor are seen as hilly.
