7:30 AM I start an exercise ride. Goodlife Gym opens at 8:00 and I time the ride perfectly. Get there at 8:01 AM breathing hard and ready to do some weight training. At 7:50 I'm done and get back on bike, ready for the usual fifteen minute cool-down ride back home, only to see about 30 or 40 cyclists at the intersection in front of me turning onto the street in the same direction I'm going to be heading.
Of course I'm curious about what's going on, so I catch up to them and ask. They're doing a "victory lap" to celebrate having completed the Niagara Falls Ride To Conquer Cancer earlier this summer. There and back over two days. I ask a few more questions about it because I had been thinking about trying it next year, or at least doing that trip one-way.
And this is my neighbourhood, a part of Gerrard Street I've riding many many times this summer, and I can't let them out-run me in my own hood, so of course my cool-down ride becomes a 'keep up with the kitted-out cyclists on road bikes' ride :)
A great way to start a Sunday.
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