Surprise

On Saturday I went out on the road to do five hours.  I decided to take my normal route as if I was doing sixty kilometers. This route usually takes three hours.  When I reached the thirty-kilometers turnaround point, my time was one hour and fifteen minutes.   Halfway back to the starting point I decided to turn around and go back to the thirty-kilometer point and only then turn around and go back.  When I stopped at my car, my total time was four hours fifty minutes.
Saturday evening my mom did some mathematics and found I had ridden ninety kilometers in total.  I didn’t believe it. My computer on my bike was disconnected and I could only use it to record the time.  So I argued that the distance was wrong because if it would be true then my time was wrong, which I know it was not.

Sunday morning we went out to measure it with the car.  The distance on the clock was ninety kilometers, but still I didn’t believe it.  I argued again, saying the car’s clock was lying!
I asked a friend to help to reconnect the computer so I can see for myself.

On Tuesday I did the same distance and when I stopped I looked at the computer and it read ninety kilometers in four hours thirty minutes!  I was speechless! That moment was big for me!

I wasn’t tired and had no pain in my body.  I could easily have done another five kilometers.  The proof is right in front of me!

‘How did I do it?’. ‘I don’t know’, but the proof is there!
Other than that I have no words.

By Deon Labuschagne