Traffic heading southbound between St Kilda St and North Rd was pretty bad at about 7:10 am but once you got back onto the foreshore it was fine.
Got to Mordialloc at about 7:50 am, had a big headwind northbound so I jumped on the bike path at Black Rock because at the speeds I was going I wasn't going to scare any pedestrians. Almost lost the bike on the path next to Brighton Baths thanks to windblown sand.
Gridlock forms b/w Sandringham and Brighton but once you pass St Kilda and get onto Beaconsfield parade you could almost get back onto the road.
Got back to work at 9:00 am.
what an experience. Pick of the day was some bloke who was fatter than me (younger though, and stronger off the bike no doubt). Copped the headwind around Mentone to Black Rock, so he sat right on my tail. OK, I don't care, but a turn would have been nice. Faster group goes by, so he jumps on, pedalling away, but can't hold them. Falls off, and I catch up. Bloke kept slowing down, sitting up, standing up and moving all over the place, but bugger that, I just slowed along with him, and stayed 6-10 meters back. From then until Pt Melb it was the same over and over again....he'd jump onto a faster group, lose them in 100 meters, then be caught, and try to get behind me 
. Enraged by their ability to wear fine white kit without looking like the Michelin Man, I smacked it into the 25, pedalled my guts out and left them for dead, just as they turned off for a coffe at Cafe Racer. Even had time to give my Rudy's some payback by giving them The Look. Cop that Oakley drug scum!
