No flies on us

Terri and I did some good riding this week. We went to Sauble Beach and Durham, both trips about 148 km return. Both were what we would consider great rides. When women get together there is usually shopping involved. In our case it is in bike shops and the trip to Sauble was no exception. We are frequently picking up this and that for our trip. Hard to believe how many little things have to be put in place for this ride.

Our trip to Durham was on roads neither of us had travelled and a 5k section through the Greenock Swamp was on packed gravel. Not our choice for a road bed but it was short so we managed, until we stopped to take a picture. In the picture of me you can see me trying to keep the hundreds of black flies at bay. We stopped in Dunkeld hoping to find the restaurant open for a break but we were 20 minutes early. We ate our peanut butter and jam sandwiches in the parking lot. We will be eating a lot of these on our trip this summer, they are fast, don't spoil and will give us the ready energy we need. Terri has well over 5,000 km under her belt and I have managed to clock roughly 4200. We feel very strong. We were encouraged by how good we felt after our long rides and how good we felt the next day. Soon we will try back to back centuries. This we did last fall on our fundraising ride for Terry Fox so we are confident.

We were famous this week. On a ride last weekend we were stopped by the local on-line paper for a picture for their web site. The local radio station gets some of their feeds from this on line newspaper (Kincardine Times). So, our venture was put on the radio. A few days later the local paper known as the Kincardine News called us for an interview. That should be in the next edition.

Mike and I are off to the Horseshoe Valley area for a week so I should get some good hill training in. That is provided it does not snow, if you can believe there is a possibility it will.

posted by Holly