Bike rides update
10/09/12
Two weekends ago I got up at 5am, made a flask of coffee, loaded my bike into the car and set off towards Niagara to ride 50 miles for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.
Twenty minutes later I realised I had forgotten my helmet.
Just after 8am, after having raced home and back, nearly running out of petrol and getting lost 1 mile from my destination, I arrived and discovered I had lost my sunglasses (probably when I jumped out at that petrol station in the middle of nowhere).
After all those shenanigans the ride itself was really fun. It was a lovely sunny day and I finished in 3 hours.
Since then I’ve still been keeping up with my morning rides, as well as carting the kids around on my Dutch beast, and I’m feeling pretty fit (I even had to buy a smaller belt!)
I don’t have GPS but I’ve tracked lots of rides manually with Google Earth. Here’s a screengrab showing how much territory I’ve covered around Toronto:
A couple of these rides are 30 miles but mostly they’re between 10 and 20. Now to see how long I can keep this up once the weather starts turning colder…