Ride 33 - Switching to the metric system

Ride 33 - 14 September 2019
Distance 33.9km (Distance to date 978.6km)
Time 2hrs 36mins (Time to date 74hrs 50mins)

For no real reason, I have been completing this blog in (imperial (i.e. miles). The reason is kind of lazy. I'm originally from the UK so my Strava account has always been in miles. I do a lot of cycling and running and am pretty bi-lingual between miles and km so never bothered changing it.

The devil makes work for idle thumbs. The other day I was exploring the Strava app and randomly switched to km, not realizing it would screw up my blog. But now it's done, I figured I'll stick with it, as Canada is metric and this is a quintessentially Canadian challenge.

The ride was planned to be simple and short. It was until the nasty surprise at Mckenzie and Hwy 17! My rules are kind of simple, if a road is named with a sign, I ride it. If it's a private driveway, I don't. So looking at the map, I thought I was done, until I saw all the stupid road signs! Still, a nice little area I didn't even know existed was explored!

Trying (and failing) to be artistic

Points of Interest.....

The Bird Condo (48.47671, -123.38127)

There was a cat in the garden opposite.

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