Pontifications

The BC Ride to Conquer Cancer 2019 was as moving and humbling as 2017.
So many survivors.
So many lost.
So many stories. Hope lives!
I couldn’t really look at the photos that people attached to their the bicycles as they rode. Too teary!
I felt healthier and the fact that I could ride the challenge route of 150km so fast and the normal route on day 2 of 105km so fast is a testament to the training that I did and the amazing advice and coaching from (not in order)
- Coach J (maple syrup and so many tips)
- Brite Coaching (without Zach’s krazy training ride up Tolmie think I would have been walking up the super steep hill on day 1! The Spanish Bank repeats made the rest of the RCC hills a breeze not to mention riding the UBC crit course)
- the amazing Lotus bicycle club (I have learned so much from riding with the peeps at Lotus; the atmosphere of friendliness and learning together is infectious and without the Brite Coaching training arranged by Lotus, my riding would be so much less efficient and more tiring.
- electrolytes from Precision Hydration (no cramps! no achey feeling two days after! again arranged by Lotus).
And of course hats off to “fastest bicyclist uphill” Andy :-) for waiting for me and pushing me to do the challenge route!
Biggest thanks to my life, my support, my anchor: my fantastic partner Barb! Thanks for putting up with me being absent all those training hours.
Mega thanks to all my donors! Thank you thank you thank you! Please donate in 2020 again if you can
Maybe next year I’ll decorate the 1946 Schwinn and ride the “normal” route for a different kind of challenge :-) ?!?! Who needs more than 8 gears!?!?

Day 1 Strava - RTCC 2019 Day 1 Challenge Route

heart rate is wrong on the high boundary; 99% sure my heart rate didn’t go above 180bpm

Day 1 Strava - RTCC 2019 Day 2

the calories is wrong :-) Maybe Strava thought I was riding the much heavier Schwinn :-) ?