Indoor training.

^{This week Mum1 was invited to a supervised wind training session at her house. Not that I don’t believe she uses her own wind trainer on a sufficiently regular basis, ie every day, but there is nothing better for motivation than to have the helpful support of someone next to you encouraging you to keep going in a friendly manner. And I have never seen Mum1 so well exercised. (Photographic evidence was destroyed in the interests of continuing friendship). We used a training dvd, the usual sort of thing showing a bunch of ageing guys racing a criterion course and  taking themselves very seriously. Some people are scornful of these dvds but not us here, we approve of them. They are visually highly entertaining and useful for picking up all sorts of jargon.  I left the official Bikeonmums road bike at her house for her to play with as eventually Mum1 will need to get one of these....} 

^{less expensive than a boat}

As expected the Tour is causing a slight drop in productivity. Niki Terpstra from the Quick Step Cycling team came close to being dropped from the Bikeonmums Tour de France favourites after winning the most aggressive rider award in Stage 15. Aggression is disapproved of at Bikeonmums as a non-feminine characteristic but Mum4 argued successfully that reasonableness is a feminine characteristic and on that basis one mistake should be allowed. Hard to argue with that; even though arguing is allowed.