We did it!
Sarah and I left the conference I was taking part in at Guelph (TRANS/FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY: PASTS, PRESENTS, FUTURES) at dinner time, threw ourselves and our bikes into the car, and drove through the rain to Sarah’s family farm in Prince Edward County.
Zoom down the 401! Zoom!
We got up very early the next day for the 8 am start for the Pedaling for Parkinsons Ride.
Yawn! Yawn!
Our team is Spinning for Susan in honour of Susan, a family member and occasional blogger with Parkinsons.
This year though Susan is in Nova Scotia doing a bit of riding with folks doing a cross Canada relay for Parkinson’s research. Our friend Emily is on a boat. Diane is riding in Ottawa. And so this year it was just the two of us.
You can still sponsor us here.
We had a great ride. It rained all night before the event but luckily the rain stopped and we had a dry ride. It wasn’t too hot. It wasn’t too humid. The weather was perfect.
I love the route for this ride. The countryside is beautiful and you can see the lake for most of it. The volunteers are incredibly warm and friendly. It’s all well signed and well organized.
Weirdly, it was for both of us, the first time out on our road bikes this season. It’s not that we haven’t been riding. It’s just there’s a lot of great gravel trails and it feels like I’ve either been commuting and so not riding my good bike, or doing weekend trips on gravel bike paths, also not on our good road bikes.
But when the pavement is good and there aren’t obnoxious drivers giving you a hard time, there’s nothing like the nice road bikes for making it up hills and whooshing down the other side.
Oh and we also raised some money for an excellent cause.
Whee!
