July Rides

[shootingstar]

For reasons I haven't fully figured out, but this summer so far, I haven't done longer distance rides like I do every summer. Oh well, I just on keep on riding anyway. Today I cycled 46 kms. which included a grocery shopping stop and dim sum on the northern suburban edges of city. Route mostly through a park path system.

So hauled home a Dungeness crab as a holiday supper treat for dinner.

Yesterday was a series of short rides.. to a Middleastern bakery for snack, then elsewhere for shopping at farmers' market, bank, then dropping by for a heritage tour of an older local church where permanent stained glass artwork depicted the fallen soldiers for WW I. (since it is the anniversary for start of WW I). Probably did the same total distance as today, but yesterday it was all broken up.

It never ceases to amaze me how under-utilized our bike-ped park pathway system is. I attribute part of the problem is lack of enough washroom facilities. One could cycle 20 km. for a segment and not encounter any washrooms. Now in the open prairie parks, with hardly trees.... that makes long distance jogging, cycling or walking with newbies, children, a tad difficult.

[emily_in_nc]

Today I awoke to yet another puncturevine (aka goathead) induced flat. All of a sudden, they must be at the right state of germination, because both DH and I have gotten multiple flats in the past week (and we've been here since July 1). Tire liners have now been ordered.

While DH was fixing my flat (on my Trek), I hopped onto the Bike Friday and rode to the post office to pick up a package (ironically, from Tree Fort Bikes, containing two new QuikStiks (the BEST tire irons we've found) and a shifter cable (for backup stores). That was a little 2.8 mile ride.

Back to the house and hopped on the now-fixed Trek and rode with DH. 44 miles on a moderately hilly rural route. A good ride is now a ride with no flats. Today was a good ride.