Later that same day...
May. 29th, 2002 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenOh, h*ll, this is getting wayyyy too far behind.
I headed straight back toward Douglas - forgetting that there would be a practice on. That is why they call it "practice week", after all. (Look, it's been a couple of years,OK? And I usually pay sod-all attention to the races anyway...)
We got as far as Ballacraine and then were stopped by closed roads. But, as is typical of the Isle of Man, in that short distance and time, the weather had changed... now, it was just barely drizzling with bursts of sunshine (and a splendid rainbow).
We watched the practice, which was as terrifying as ever - and yet oddly boring too, as after the first few colourful blobs hurtle past there's an undeniable sameness to the experience. Then hooned back along the back roads. Others may come for the racing, but it's not what I'm here for...
I headed straight back toward Douglas - forgetting that there would be a practice on. That is why they call it "practice week", after all. (Look, it's been a couple of years,OK? And I usually pay sod-all attention to the races anyway...)
We got as far as Ballacraine and then were stopped by closed roads. But, as is typical of the Isle of Man, in that short distance and time, the weather had changed... now, it was just barely drizzling with bursts of sunshine (and a splendid rainbow).
We watched the practice, which was as terrifying as ever - and yet oddly boring too, as after the first few colourful blobs hurtle past there's an undeniable sameness to the experience. Then hooned back along the back roads. Others may come for the racing, but it's not what I'm here for...
