Ready for a Bike Ride

On Wednesday we plan to join the bicycle riders who are on their way from Syracuse NY to Grand Rapids MI to the UCC General Synod. Wednesday they will be riding from Canadauiga to Dunkirk. It is our plan to meet them 10 miles before they arrive in Attica and ride that way with them. Then we'll stay for dinner and the program they will be presenting on alternative transportation.

Today we decided we should do an experimental bike ride to get ready for the expected 10 mile ride on Wednesday. The route we took ended up being only 7.7 miles, but I think it will do. Our muscles felt it at the end, and we proved we could do it. I had been planning to do this, then yesterday Gordon said he wanted to ride too, so we planned out a simple route to do today. We went from our house to Yorkshire right onto Rt 16, down a hill & up the other side to Schutt Rd. There we turned right & rode back toward town (a few hills on that road). We followed that until it hit Rt 98 near the Fire Hall, then turned toward Main St & down to Park St & home. It took us a bit over 50 minutes.

We were pretty satisfied with ourselves I think. After changing out of sweaty shirts & drinking lots of water & having some food, we set off to do the rest of our afternoon errands. We needed to buy a new coffee maker (our old one suddenly broke & spilled water all over the counter). We also went to Buckwheats garden store and bought vegetables plants for our garden & some flowers for the barrels in front of our house & enough Impatients for 2 hanging pots for the front porch. These were all thanks to the Mothers Day gift certificate from Barb. It was the first chance we had to go and use it & we still have some money left for later purchases.

Before supper we planted the veggies we bought & fixed the flowers & they look quite nice. Later they will spread and look even better.

A very good day indeed.