Extra ride along the commuter route with the wife. I'm recording it here for future reference, because I may need that later. The ride from Hoogezand to Groningen was pleasant, with a cool tail wind, under cloudless skies. Rona got a bit cold in her bad leg, but we made good time until we got into traffic in Groningen, when the endless braking and restarting slowed us down quite a bit. Worse, it was very hard on Rona's knee on her good leg; she'd hurt it a couple of days ago and any pedal mashing made the pain come back.

The ride back turned into a death march as a result. The weather was now much warmer, but we were going upwind and Rona had to gear down, down, down to stop her knee from hurting. By the time we arrived, she was miserable. I wasn't going too fast myself because I was loaded up with goodies from the Asian supermarket we stopped at. Good food will help Rona out a lot.

But we gotta strengthen that knee of hers. She's got so much fitter this past year and wants to ride, but that knee threatens to ruin things.