Ride 40 - 'Summit Park' was never going to end well!

Ride 40 - 27 October 2019
Distance 35.4km (Distance to date 1211.4km)
Time 2hrs 57mins (Time to date 93hrs 17mins)

The green rental bikes of Victoria have a lot of pros, but they also have a lot of cons.......they only have three gears was a pretty pertinent con on this ride!

The clue was in the name, I guess. Summit Park. The roads surrounding the park too; The Rise, Summit Avenue, Highview Street!

Obligatory Bike Shot

In reality Summit Park isn't a mountain; just a mere hillock but heading up and down the inclined roads surrounding is exhausting!

All that work for this stunning view 🤔

The low point of my challenge occurred on Summit Avenue, I failed at a climb. The road was narrow and steep and I just ran out of legs. I still rode to the top (so challenge isn't failed or anything), just took a couple of goes and dented my perfect record (and ego!).

You can take Victoria out of the tree, but you can't take the tree out of Victoria

Points of Interest.....

No Points of Interest

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 28 - Foul Bay

Ride 28 - 5 August 2019 Distance 24.1miles (Distance to date 481.6 miles) Time 2hrs 56mins (Time to date 59hrs 48mins) No idea how Foul Bay Rd got it's name ( until now!! ), but it's not foul and there is no Foul Bay in Victoria. Still it makes for a pleasant bit of Urban Onroading! Sometimes timing is everything Points of Interest..... Jumping Dog (48.436641, --23.317773) Just a statue of a jumping dog. It made me smile! Woof!

Victoria on a Bike

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