Eagle Harbour from the Trans Canada Highway
Originally uploaded by JamesZ_Flickr.
Today I did my first very long distance ride – 70 miles. It was mostly fun, but the hills were a pain as ever! It is surprisingly easy to cover this distance in Vancouver – I went from UBC down to Iona beach and out to the end of the Jetty there. Then I came back up through the bike road on Angus Drive, down through Downtown via the Burrard Street Bridge and to West Vancovuer via the Lions Gate Bridge. I then went out to Horseshoe Bay via Marine Drive – here there were a few too many hills, necessitating a couple of stops! I thought I’d go a different route back – on the Trans Canada Highway – which is acutally a designated bike route. I figured it would be quite flat when I got up there, that was a misjudgement! There was probably more climbing there than going back via Marine. I took this till the Lions Gate Bridge exit, when back across that Bridge back over Burrard Street bridge then back up to UBC via Spanish Banks. Phew!
I hope that the assessment that my current bike is about 20% more work than a road bike will prove true as this will mean I have covered a distance more equivalent to nearly the worst day on the ride.
Raising money for cystic fibrosis by cycling 