The Cycling: Stage 16 is 169km long and starts in El Pas de la Casa and ends in Saint-Gaudens. Two more riders abandoned the race yesterday, one to focus on the upcoming Olympics and the other due to injuries sustained way back on day 1 when the fan got in the way of the peleton and brought half of them down. I guess the injuries are just not healing due to continued pressure on them. Today's route takes the riders through the Pyrenees and back into France. Along the route there was a Category 2, a Category 1 and a Category 4 climb. Patrick Konrad won the stage.
Team Challenge: "After a good rest our cyclists will be heading to Saint-Gaudens for their next stop. They'll be passing Haute-Garonne, in an area known for its violets. These little flowers have many culinary uses and a delicate flavour.
If you are looking for a bit of inspiration today, why not try a delicate purple-hued yarn?".
What I planned to do and what I achieved: I am spinning a 100g bump of Whitefaced Woodland plus 25g of Whitefaced Woodland from a British Breeds Sample back, both purchased from World of Wool. As I've done in the past I split the larger amount into two by holding the two ends together, finding the middle and separating into two equal amounts at that point. Then with the sample amount, I split that into two the same way but then stretched each out to the same length as the larger bumps and spun both the sample and the larger bump at the same time in each case so that the fibres mixed.
The finished yarn is 226m, so that is another 678m to add to the team total.
Collectively as a team we have spun 158,697.21m or 158.69km. That is almost the distance of Stage 12, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Nîmes, which was 159.4km. We are awesome as a team!
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