partially beaten track

I shall attempt, seeing as I seem to be intending to do a weeksworth, to get one in daylight tomorrow so as to avoid having to use stupid ISOs every day. I shall probably not alternate bikes for the remainder of the week as newoldbike sucked a chain (forming a knot behind the largest sprocket) and popped a spoke (probably as a result of the chain straining against it) on the way back to the main path and shall now have to have some attention paid to the rear wheel, which was easily straightened-up enough to ride home partly due to the utter lack of tension in many of the spokes. The oldbike's spare freewheeled wheel up in the loft might come into play at some point, though it's down a couple of spokes where I've needed them to repair something else.

As I've only ever popped underneath this bridge at night I've not been able to properly visually assess its condition; it's fenced-off but mostly intact apart from a few missing steps and absent slats. I was careful to keep my feet where they were both in contact with two slats seeing as I was temporarily adding to the weight they were bearing; lighterbike would have been better but I couldn't remember if the little section of path between NCN1 and the mudfest old railway line over which this bridge goes was tarmac or mud so went for the fatter wheels.

One of the things preventing me getting out at lunchtime was one of these learning-things-at-work sorts of thing we're occasionally allowed to go to, particularly when being lightly encouraged to do so so that we have a tangible diary entry backing-up the ticking of the personal development box. Cutting out the rhubarbing and interaction it could have been delivered in a few minutes, but that would have meant there was no opportunity for it to go slightly meta when the facilitatrix asked "what is necessary for meetings to be productive?" or something, resulting in a raised hand and the answer "participation". It also appears that "management education" is now an official business-training buzzterm, which is worrying as most managers seem to naturally develop manageryness without any assistance other than day-to-day demonstration of BAU management. Evidently this hasn't been resulting in a sufficiently adaptable and capable management toolset.