easy riding

 our usual team photo pose

A few friends and I took part in a small bike-a-thon (30km) two weeks ago with the scenic Centennial Park as our backdrop. I am finding that these bike-a-thons are getting shorter and shorter as I age. Just 4 years ago I was doing 200km on a mountain bike tackling some crazy hills in Waterloo. Maybe next year I will push myself and do a longer ride. In any case, this year's ride was fun and relaxing since I actually got to enjoy myself instead of dreading upcoming hills. To top it off, it was all for a good cause (Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada)! A new trail recently opened up in my neighbourhood, so I'm excited to try that out. I need to show my bike more love since I only used it one and a half times this summer. It probably feels pretty neglected, but this summer has just been all sorts of busy. When I get my road bike, I am going to start a Sunday riding club. It'll probably be just Nathan and me so to compensate for the lack of numbers, we'll just have to pretend we're biking hot shots on the road.

This entry has been a little all over the place. I think it's because my brain has also been a little all over the place. I wish I can contain it all in a nice little jar...

our obligatory orange-in-mouth pose

first ride of the season

my naked bike

Last Tuesday Shannon and I had a date to get back on our bikes to gear up for our small bike-a-thon in September (but mostly, it was because she was eager to try out her new bike). The wheels from our bikes had been taken off - hers from transporting her bike home and mine from being too lazy to reassemble it after cleaning it last year. I must have forgotten how difficult it was to put the back wheel back on because we spent more time trying to put the bikes back together than the actual bike riding itself! I had to call in reinforcements (a.k.a Nathan) to save us from completely destroying our bikes and my hands. He also brought over some watermelon for us to snack on. He's that kind of guy :)

point&shoots make Yoshi grainy

 transporting our bikes to where the tools are

oh bike, why can't you behave...

After some brake and chain issues, Shannon and I were finally off to ride around the neighbourhood...without our helmets! We are such rebels... It was a stressful evening, but I'm glad that we got the first ride out of the way.

j'♥ les endorphines

Time to build some bum tolerance to uncomfortable seats! My next bike is definitely going to be a comfort bike for the sake of mon derrière.

Happy biking to all this weekend!