Cycling
A Cycling Post: Tour for Kids
That’s right, a post on cycling. This is a snowboarding and cycling blog, you know!
I have made a resolution this winter to really notch up what I do on two wheels next year. Some of you may recall that I made a significant (well, for me, anyway) investment in a road bike toward the end of the season. I would say I actually got it out on significant (50k+) rides about half a dozen times before it got pretty cold outside.
This year I’ll have a full season to ride, and I’m looking forward to improving my skills and generally getting fit. I’d really like to lose 10 pounds or so, and a great way to do it would be spending the summer cycling long distances. I got a few 80k+ rides in last summer, and I thought I did pretty well. This summer I plan to ratchet the challenge up a notch by participating in the Tour for Kids.
Tour for Kids is a ride some of my friends have done for a couple of years now. It’s a two or four-day ride around Southern Ontario in support of several organizations which are dedicated to helping children with caner and their families. At this point it looks like I’ll be participating in the four-day ride, which means I’ll do at least 400k in four days. Because the rides are split into groups based on abilities, however, some folks could end up riding more than 800k in that same period (guys like Steve, I bet).
The schedule looks like this:
- Day 1: Ride from Richmond Hill to Peterborough
- Day 2: Ride around the Peterborough area
- Day 3: Ride from Peterborough to Haliburton
- Day 4: Ride from Peterborough to Richmond Hill
Anyway, you’ll probably hear a bit more about this and other cycling/mountain biking adventures in upcoming months. Stay tuned.
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