Day two dawned clear and comfortable with our knitter well rested. The stage was mostly flat and she now understood the directions. Knit. Knit. Knit. Purl. Finish up that kinky ripped out yarn. And at the end of stage 2 our knitter had recovered her place in the pelleton.
On to Stage 3. Now the bikers are in Belgium and our knitter is aiming to finish the back panel. Knit. Knit. Knit. Uh oh, it's raining in Belgium. Watch the spectacular crash in the bikers version of the Tour de France. Ouch! That must hurt! Knit, Knit. Purl. SSK. And our knitter, stalled by the crash, comes in with the same time as the rest of the pack. Maybe she can pull ahead in Stage 4 -- the side panels.
And somewhere in there our Knitter turned biker and rode 24 miles -- 12 of them in 95 degree heat and the 5.5 of the other 12 with a violin on her back. Her children? 11 miles to and from summer programs. Ice cream was consumed upon the completion of the second journey -- as a prologue to dinner.
4 comments:
You are incredibly speedy, knitting the back twice in the time it would take most of us to knit a fraction of that!
I wondered about you all riding in the heat. Ugh. 24 miles plus all that knitting - surely there must be a TdF KAL award for such a feat!
Woo!
Go, Mama Squid. GO!
I think you've earned chocolate on top of the ice cream.
Good for you for keeping up with the biking in the hot weather and for persevering with the vest! You are a fast knitter!
I'm just way impressed. If I rode that far in the heat I would have had to be knitting in the hospital!
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