Early Season Riding

Ottawa is great if you think that you basically trade in a normal USA winter for a nasty brutish -10F-lows winter, but in return you get mild wonderful temps through April-June. July and August get a little humid, but its not Atlanta humid.

Riding has been in fits and starts, but I've been riding more than ever. Early season you might hit a few patches of snow in Quebec, but all that is gone now.



Racing season is here: crits (well, try to stay in the pack at least) on Tuesdays, and Race Mt. Bikes on Wednesdays, and other group ride type things on weekends...

March Roads

The spring thaw has allowed longer rides finally. Two weeks ago I took an 80-miler to Merrickville and back, a small town in the country along the Rideau river canal-lock system that allowed the barges of old to travel from the st. Lawrence to reach Lake Ontario without brushing against the border where they would be easy prey for those pesky raiders from the southland. By the time the locks were built, US-Canada relations warmed and the canal was not needed. Now it is used by gaudy motor boats chuging up and down the lock-system all summer from Ottawa to the Thousand Island archipelago in Lake Ontario.




You pass through miles and miles of bumpy country roads along streams, barns, and corn fields as far as you can see.