Today we went:
I heard that Sainsbury's had fitbits on offer for £53 instead of £70. I have been saving up for one. I mentioned this to Hubster, so he fixed his p******, put my old tyre on his Mavic wheels - he has the same tyres on but they are looking a bit knackered and the thorn he was pulling out, came out in several bits. It did not want to let go of it's snug new home in the rubber.
We rode up the Dereham Road, got on the cyclepath and rode to Sainsbury's. I went in and bought the last fitbit in the place. Guess it must have been a popular offer. One of the assistants asked me why I was carrying my shoes and did my feet hurt. I showed her to bottom on my shoes and said that I didn't want to skid about on her nice shiny floor, fall over and break my neck. She said 'fair enough'. She'd wondered why cyclists wandered about the shop in their socks but hadn't liked to ask before.
Once bought, we had to get the box - that was too big to fit - into Hubsters saddlebag. A bit of flattening and folding occurred. Hubs has an expandable saddlebag. I reckon we could squeeze a Jack Russell in there if pushed. Maybe not
Once we'd sorted that out, we rode off to the cyclepath, only to find that because they are building an out of town Next store, that we couldn't cross so we pushed our bikes, on the pavement, across 2 roundabouts before getting back on them at the Bawburgh Road and heading off down there.
We went down the hill, past Herbie Hydes place, then followed the road through the village, turned left past
Marlingford Mill - very pretty. Straight over the B1108 and up Pockthorpe Road to Melton Road and on to Wymondham. It was here that himself 'fessed up that he had no money for a cuppa so we pushed on through the town, past the station and up Rightup Lane, over the foot/cycle bridge and off to Wreningham, then Hethel. We rode past the factory and test track on the cycle path, stopping at the end for a couple of mins as my left foot was having a snooze. Then back via East Carleton, Eaton, Cringleford. A quick nip across the UEA fields where the trail ran out and we cycled on the grass. Up Chancellor Hill where we were scalped by a fit young bloke some 30 years our junior, so I didn't feel bad.
Last mile and a half was slow. We'd got really cold. We didn't go along our usual cyclepaths but took the short-cut on other bike paths cutting off a good quarter mile.
25.73 in a smidgette over 2 hours moving time. Hubs said that we must have ridden 18 miles by now, I just agreed with him as I didn't want to put him off riding the last mile home. I did tell him when we were unlocking the door though. Not such a nice day as yesterday, which was a shame but I suppose that we wouldn't have got as much done today, as we did yesterday with today's weather.
I have smashed through this month's mileage target so I've added 30 miles. I'm nearly at that target so maybe I'll add another 10-15
Fortunately he possesses bike handling skills worthy of a circus performer, and somehow stayed on the bike. Bravo! that man.
