May 1, 04:38 PM by Steve | Human Traffic Cone

Posted in Miscellanea & Cycling

Yesterday was the first day of Nite Moves, and I resumed my duties as a human traffic cone. More precisely, I led out the runners until they come back through Shoreline Park, then I stop and direct them back into the park and generally make sure people go the right way. It gets kind of hectic over there because you got runners going up and down, its very narrow, and there is a transition from the street/bike lane back to the sidewalk for returning runners. This causes the most issues, because for some reason which I have yet to figure out, the runners coming back tend to run all the way to their right, forcing the runners going out to their right, which is unfortunately in the street. I try to yell at the runners going out to keep to their left but most of them either don’t hear me, don’t understand, or don’t care, and continue running in the middle of traffic blissfully unaware.

It is unfortunate that Nite Moves falls on the same evening as crit practice, as I am going to have to chose between them each week. It seems I made the right call this week, as there was a crash that sent several riders to the ground and Frazer to the hosptal with a broken collarbone.

In other news, like an idiot I forgot to sign up for the San Luis Rey road race this Sunday, and of course it filled up. However, someone I know can’t make it and is letting me have his spot, if I can work it out with the race promoters. I called and spoke with the race director and he said we should be able to make it work, so yay!

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