Easter Sunday - my Pacific Populaire 100 km training ride

Submitted by Stan Shaw 

Thankfully, the dreadful windstorms over the past few days let up a bit, enough for me to participate in the first major cycling event of the spring season, the "Pacific Populaire".  This event is sponsored by the Randonneurs cycling club  . Now in its 15th year, hundreds of cyclists turned up for the ride, including some notable past GearUp4CF team members. I am so glad my friend Mike asked if I'd come today. It was great fun, despite some pretty strong headwinds out off River Road.  My official time for the 100km ride, which excludes a brief break at the control station, was 3:59 minutes. Not bad given Mike and I took it easy on the return leg heading out to UBC and back to the starting point along 16th avenue.


The route, mapped out here by my bike GPS unit, is similar to the one our GearUp4CF cycling team did a few weeks ago, though a bit longer.   From now until our big ride in June, most weekends will be filled with rides like this.

<--for more details of the ride, see http://connect.garmin.com/activity/28993994

Tomorrow, if the weather is good, some friends and I are heading up Cypress to work on some hills. As you can see on my GPS elevation chart shown here, there were only a few little ones on this ride. Hardly enough to be prepared for the mountain passes we'll be climbing, all too soon!

- Stan


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