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Ride 5 - Nothing Interesting .....EXCEPT A COW!!!

Ride 5 - 23 March
Distance 12.9 miles (Distance to date 85.0 miles)
Time 1:42 (Time to date 9:39)

I guess not every ride in this project is going to be a 10.  Ride 5 was the first ride I've done where I've kind of had nothing much to report, except a cow!!! (see more details of this gem below).


After the debacle of finding a bike for my last ride, this one was a piece of cake to find and the bike was in pretty good order (except a damaged pedal).




This ride was the first with some steep hills.  We got through it, but there were moments when my legs were near capacity!

Points of Interest.....

The Urban Cow (48.473823, -123.346427)

It's hard to believe that there is a cow living among us, but what I'm telling you is true.  A COW!!! Just there chewing the cud on Braefoot Rd.  It's not like there's a farm nestled between houses either, this appears to be a cow living in a yard.

My work here is done.



Lured by grass
It's udderly amazing what you find when you mooove about

























Only one point of interest, but a couple of other pictures:


Urban Offroading


Beverly Hills Garden


A casualty from the snowfall we had in March


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