Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Bringing It Back to Life


The boys and I have some downtime here in Bromont Quebec until we make the push over to Tremblant. Fortunately the weather has been super nice. Its good to ride in just shorts and see the leaves are out at least in one part of Canada.

The 3 of us took the day completely off from riding a bike. I was thinking back to the last time I hadn't ridden at least for a recovery ride, and other than my travel day from BC, I couldn't remember, so at least 4 weeks. We found a rickety pedal boat that was by the house which was infested with spiders, so we figured it probably came with the house rental. Even on a recovery day, we still had to pedal.

2 hours later and 3 km down river we explored a part of Bromont that otherwise we wouldn't have seen. We also realized just how in-efficient pedal boats are, and we're putting our cyclist/engineering minds together to squeeze a little more speed from the ol girl.

Today, we hopped on the bikes for a pretty solid ride. Nothing too intense but it included getting lost on the Bromont ski hill and climbing up the runs for about 2 hours looking for a way to the downhill trails. Then we realized we were on the wrong mountain. Either way, the jersey tan got a workout, and we gave up after 3 hours with hopes of a better day tomorrow.

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