Penny came over and we had a spinning lesson. First she learned how to predraft, then to park and draft and finally, she took a spin on my Journey Wheel. The lady can spin! Once she was on the wheel there was no stopping her. Now if only her husband will understand.
As a thank you she brought chocolate! Yum.***
For those of you tuning in for the TdFKAL, I have nothing new. I just barely started the second front panel but spent more time starting a plain vanilla sock for movie knitting. Have to have something to do during Harry Potter, you know.***
On the biking front, we did the back and forth to camp thing and I am wiped out from that and some other running around I had to do today. I think early to bed is the motto for tonight. In my defense, we had a headwind heading up in the morning, I had a headwind going up to get the kids this afternoon and then, in the span of the half hour turn around, had the headwind coming home. I may have only done 23 miles but they were tough miles!This morning I finally clocked the distance of the long hill that runs up Riverside Drive and ends at Little Squid's Camp -- 0.9 miles. Yup, almost a mile of uphill. The altitude change from the start of the hill to our end point is 90 feet. That translates to roughly 9 stories or 5 feet per block. Portions of the climb are steeper then others. Yeah, I have no idea how this compares to the Alps (a bump in the road, probably) but right now it is a big deal to me. Little Squid was proud of doing it all in one gear today. I had to go down a few to stay behind him (going slowly uphill is more difficult then just charging ahead). Coming back home I managed to finally break 17 miles / hr on the downhill stretch. Given my reticence to go downhill at speed recently, this is a big deal. I used to race down the hills in Central Park averaging 18 - 20 mph. That, however, was 16 years ago.
Squidette has finally agreed that biking to camp is a good thing and says she will consent to do it for the rest of the session, weather permitting. Yea!
6 comments:
Heading into the wind is the worst. And that sounds like a tough hill. Going down hills is fun, but I too am leery and keep tapping those handbrakes.
Go Mommy! :-)
Hey! I didn't say that I wanted to ride for the rest of the camp time! Did I?
Oh, that happens to me with the headwinds all the time. The wind knows and changes on purpose, I'm convinced! I hope the shelf rearranging is going well.
That's a great photo of Penny. And I'm so glad you two could get together and share some spinning time.
I had dreams of your wheel(s) and spindles all night. Thank you!!! (Tho I do wonder if I've been permanently corrupted with my first wheel spin on your JW..)
Now to figure out how to type+read+knit+spin all at the same time and I'll be set.
E hasn't grumbled too much yet. He said the enabling fibre is pretty.. (step by step). My mum is really excited though so I guess I have to figure out what I can knit this first yarn into for her. That will make her happy. (I think a hat as I have some brown wool I think the plied yarn will be somewhat equivalent to).
Again, THANK YOU!
(more chocolate soon..) :)
I could have warned Penny. Around the Mose household you are known as an enabler supreme!
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