Quince blossom

After breakfast we got ready for our bike ride to collect my replacement bib-shorts. Before we had even started my better half had a flat, which on inspection turned out to be the result a tiny spear-head shaped piece of flint that had penetrated the puncture protection layer on the Continental tyres. You couldn't feel it with your finger but is was just visible on the outside. I took it out while my better half patched the tube again.

We cycled to the bike shop using the intended route this time, not getting lost on our way there. At the shop the new bib shorts were in stock and put them on replacing my existing shorts, my old shorts taking up less space for the cycle back - plus I wanted the fun of trying out my new ones. We had our Geo Bar, and then set off on the way back. Rather than take a direct route, we took an alternate route home, which had two climbs, one was a modest 6%, the second up and over the Watership down was a bit harder on the legs at 10%.


All things considered a nice ride, we even tried logging it with a phone/GPS, which gave us 56.11 km at 21.9 km/h, compared with the on bike computer which counts only rolling time and gave 55.4 km and an average of 22.6 km/h.

On returning home we fitted a bike computer to my better half's road bike, we didn't fit it previously as she wanted to change the stem, so the computer has been sitting unused in the bike tool box. If properly calibrated I think the bike computer should give better measurements than GPS in a phone, tough as it's only a basic computer it's don't do any logging. It does do cadence which is useful.

I then made banana milkshakes for us, which are pretty basic, a chopped banana, a dollop of yogurt, some whey power, and then add 200 ml of milk and blitz. It's cheap simple and apparently considered a good recovery food.

Today's blips are from the front garden. The main blip is a quince flower (Cydonia oblonga), so far no quince blight this year. The extra photo is a close up of a clematis flower that is growing all over the front of the house.

Now it's time to iron the laundry that has got nice and dry while we were out of the house... and possibly have a nice cup of tea!