Went for a ride while the others went shopping or had a nap. Just two hours, but on nice steep and narrow minor roads (map).
Distance: 16 miles
Surface: Road
Time: 2 hours
Weather: Nice and warm, sunny
Bike: Solitude fixie (with 45c tyres, 34:16)
Rose up to Egglestone to meet up with the rest of the family, who’d travelled up by car in the morning while I was at a funeral, to stay with A, A and M. The ride up seemed easier than last time, when I’d been on the Inbred. Don’t know if that’s down to the bike or the fixed gear.
Distance: 24 miles
Surface: Road
Time: 2 hours
Weather: Nice and warm, sunny
Bike: Solitude fixie (with 45c tyres, 34:16)
Green consumerism is becoming a pox on the planet, according to George Monbiot. Reading the free Ethical Living magazine we got free with our veg this week was interesting, after reading this article.
Rode to Hamsterley Forest and back; about 20 miles each way on the road. While I was there I did a circuit of the Skills Loop (slowly and taking the chicken runs) and had a ride along the Grove Link. I need to do some tweaking of the saddle position, as I keep sliding forwards putting pressure on my hands.
Distance: 50 miles
Surface: Road/off-road
Time: 3 hours, 50 minutes
Weather: Nice and warm, sunny
Bike: Solitude fixie (with 45c tyres, 34:16)
First proper ride on the Solitude in fixie mode. Scared by some cows, and got rained on.
Distance: 10 miles
Surface: Road/off-road
Time: 1 hour
Weather: Nice and warm, followed by heavy rain
Bike: Solitude fixie (with 45c tyres, 34:16)
A sub-24-hour overnight (S240) trip sounds fun:
Suckage. My 30 rides in 30 days attempt fell flat on it’s arse and SSUk ended up with a broken bike.
Proper rides: 15 miles
Business miles: 0 miles
Commuting: 105 miles (21 days riding to work and back)
Misc: 10 miles
Total: 130 miles
(Total so far for 2007: 712 miles (119 miles per month – on course for 1428 miles for the year))
Friday evening: gala dinner to raise funds for a group of Darlington young folk to travel to Lesotho to produce a film to raise awareness of AIDS in Darlington. The Mayor was there. Very swanky.
Sunday evening: burying a body* in the back garden.
* of a rabbit