Ride 25 - Zipping Up

Ride 25 - 28 July 2019
Distance 26.2miles (Distance to date 423.5 miles)
Time 3hrs 18mins (Time to date 52hrs 26mins)

This ride felt good. The miles ridden / area covered was great and I managed to zip up a few patches of map. The best feeling (for me!).

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While out on the ride, my phone was going crazy with notifications about friends' progress in Ironman Canada, so it was somewhat of a coincidental tribute that my ride came in at 26.2 miles; the distance of the run in an Ironman. I don't know how they do it, I was spent after this ride!

Not Fooling Anyone

Points of Interest.....

Barrel Car (48.43837, -123.3375)

Random derelict car parts. Guys, take your ladies to see it, they'll love it!

I'm sure I've seen worse cars actually on the road in Victoria!

You're Awesome (48.43516, -123.34743)

This one is pretty self explanatory, but just standing in front of it made me feel good!

Thanks Bill

Comments

How many roads are there in Victoria?

So, before getting started, I'm going to make a guess of what I've taken on. The challenge is to cover every road in Victoria, I've taken 'Victoria' to mean Victoria and the surrounding areas / districts. So the municipality 'City of Victoria' has a total of 258km . Unfortunately, I've made my life difficult and included Esquimalt, Oak Bay and some of Saanich! Just a finger in the air here, but it looks like Victoria covers 1/4 of my area, so I'm looking at just over 1,000km. On one of these: Jeepers

Biggest News in Saanich Right Now?

So I think I've had my 15 minutes of fame. Man, it was quick. I was interviewed by the local paper............. and I was FRONT PAGE news!!!! That's right, Victoria on a Bike was the biggest news in Saanich . (We don't need to mention that this week's biggest news in Saanich was 20 people going on a 5km bike ride!*). Front Page The madness didn't stop there. Next I received a call from CBC Radio and asked to be a guest on the All Points West radio show. This is the only evidence I can offer that I was on the radio! What's next you ask? Well after all the attention my website had 60 hits (out of a metropolitan population of >300,000), so I guess nothing is next and things will carry on as normal! * Incase you doubted me

Ride 47 - Zzzzzzzzzzip

Ride 47 - 7 December 2019 Distance 22.2 km (Distance to date 1,507.6 km) Time 1hrs 54mins (Time to date 116hrs 1min) Hopefully, if all goes to plan, this was my penultimate ride! Zipping up the gaps I have left on my map. The ride was pretty miserable, mainly because of the wet December weather. Fenders!!! I did finally ride past the Tartan Toque, probably my favourite place to eat in Victoria. I'd always planned to stop here for a beer and a bowl of chicken wings when I finally rode past, but it didn't sound so appealing at 11am!! Best Wings in Victoria (IMHO) My kind of art That crack was made by a dog's head Points of Interest..... No points of interest

Victoria on a Bike

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