Another week flown by, a few good rides and lots of time outside with the dogs as the weather’s been quite nice. Well, Tuesday was pretty wet, but by the early evening it had stopped and I got out for a little outing with Sunny while running a car errand:
That was a new spot for me, in Renfrew Ravine. If I lived adjacent to this, I’d be down here with my morning coffee every day I think!
Wednesday I got out for a nice Deer Lake loop, what has become an established route for me, taking MUPs and small trails to connect up a largely car-free 25km figure-8 shaped loop. I wanted to go to Deer Lake in part because their rhodo-heavy garden should be coming into bloom now, and indeed it was looking pretty good:
Years ago I found a tree that is actually remarkably comfortable to sit in, overlooking the lake. It’s become a spot for me to have a beverage on many occasions since.
The following day I went back out on the Bombadil after work, this time for a two-bridge loop of North Van and up to the pond at Murdo Frazer Park for one of my favourite benches:
Sadly did not see any turtles today, and I even had my monocular with me. I took a series of trails that largely parallel the highway to get back east, a route that has become a favourite of mine – certainly more effort than required to get where I was going, but really enriches the ride.
By the time I was most of the way home, the light was starting to fail, and the sky was looking really good:
I took Friday off riding except for two short trips for a lunch meet and to pick up sushi, then Saturday was the Crescent 200 at Shaughnessy Park. It’s our version of LADDS500, essentially – riding around in a 0.6km loop for as many times as we wish, 200 being the “official” goal. I rode my Raleigh Twenty, in the spirit of bringing something less practical, and ended up doing somewhere around 70 laps? In the end it was 53km door to door, my second longest ride on the Twenty. I met some new people and saw lots of friends – a really great day.
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