Re: Patching TPU innertube

Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:34:07 -0500, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
 

I get to go for a bike ride tomorrow!  I'm going to a grocery four
whole miles away.  Weather Underground says that it's going to be warm
enough that it's possible to get wet.

 
Ride somewhat curtailed:  I'd planned to have lunch at the Panda
Express near Meijer, and fiddled around moving my old horizontal
monitor to my new computer, etc. thinking to leave an hour before time
for lunch.  Ended up leaving at 12:12, and the pharmacy I planned to
stop at on the way back closes at four, so I needed to get there at
three, which meant leaving Meijer at two.  I ate a fruit-and-grain bar
and a smoked snack stick.
 
I haven't lost as much muscle as I feared.  I was halfway up McKinley
and realized "Hey!  I haven't shifted down!"  Up until then I'd been
distracted a bit with blowing my nose.  (McKinley is my own private
bikeway, and has no intersections before one gets to the top.)   (The
city paved it a few years ago in hope of selling the Gatke buildings,
but finally had to demolish them themselves.)
 
Bedtime
 
 
 
Sunday, 26 January, 2025
 
I was much concerned that it took me twenty-five minutes to ride from
Zales to home, but after going to bed, I remembered that instead of
riding around the building and crossing Center on Lincoln, I'd gone to
the coming-in-when-westbound-on-Center exit of the parking lot and
waited a few minutes before realizing that it would be quicker to go
to the stoplight.  Then there was some inconveniently-synchronized
traffic on Winona when I wanted to cross, then I stopped at our
mailbox and made some false starts at safely stashing two important
letters.  (I'd stashed the mail insecurely before remembering that I
have a document slot for maps and stuff on the insulated pannier.)
 
 
Sunday evening.  I think I wrote the above after taking my
middle-of-the-night pill.  I've forgotten what I meant to say about
the ride.
 
Checking the weather for next Saturday's ride (not bad), I noted that
on Friday, we're due for "Light Rain 1.3 in".  An inch is "light"?
 
 
Monday, 27 January 2025
 
I meant to enlarge upon "stronger than expected after all this time".
It took only forty-six minutes to ride to Meijer when I'd allowed an
hour, and I stopped to investigate a squeaky pannier.  Only
thirty-seven minutes to ride from Meijer to Zales, and I stopped to
re-tie a scarf that had loosened while I was in Meijer.
 
Google Maps says it's 3.3 miles, 5.3 mph, 9 kph.
 
I think I used the wrong conversion factor for kph.
 
4.5 miles for trip out.   36 minutes.  7.5 mph.
 
I'd better send this now if I want to do it today.
 

That’s fine and utility trips don’t need to be performance minded some can
be clearly but they don’t need to be!

Been very wet in uk, but have dry day so planning a longer explore late
afternoon/evening to meet folks in the pub later.

Roger Merriman