What are you doing on the holiday tomorrow?

Hey, all you Canadian girls! What are you doing for the long weekend? I hope you all get the extra day off and do something wonderful to celebrate our grand country! what a great place to live!!

Me and DH will be pretty focussed on the last few projects in our renovation room. It has already taken way longer than I'd want to admit, and probably will take way longer than I could even guess to totally finish it, but I promise to show pictures when we do!! It will be a very cool room! (and the accommodations for TE Forum travellers should they come this way....)

We'll be lucky to get a ride in, but I'm hopeful. As is typical, we expect a good amount of rain. After all, this is the big event weekend here, the "world famous" Williams Lake Stampede, and it's traditionally a mudfest for the cowboys and girls. If the rain isn't too bad on Saturday we'll take in the parade and the downtown street party.... <smile>

What are your plans?

Namaste,
~T~

Well, I'm not Canadian or in Canada, so I'm at work. I hope you all have a great holiday! We went to Canada Day celebration in Ottawa with my cousins (Candadians) a few years ago, and it was great fun.

Four our holiday Monday, I'm planning a long, possibly solo, ride. We'll see how I feel after Saturday and if I feel like going out with the guys, or just cruising on my own. And I'm going to clean my bike! It deserves it.

I'm going to get my Deluxe Spitfire road ready - or at least play with the chain until I'm sick of it. I'm NOT mechanical so it doesn't take much - but the chain is I think just loose so it sort of jumps around instead of meshing sweetly with the gears. (It's a 50's or 60's middleweight cruiser, which gives me a *great* workout on the "easy" club ride.)
Monday we've got an early morning 50miler planned (wanna come? the route's at http://www.resourceroom.net/pcc/aroundCU.jpg) Scenery is corn & soybeans and the elusive "blue mound" on the map, but a little hard to find...

I must admit I'm not the most patriotic of Canadians but gladly took the holiday to go for a ride West of Montreal (Dorion - Rigaud - Dorion for those who know the place) with a friend this morning. 68 km in 2h30m, by far my fastest so far... Ok he was drafting me a bit but I did long stretches by myself, and it was moderately hilly with one big hill and lots of ups and downs. We also caught up with another guy, a 62-year-old who decided to ride with us. Turns out I had heard of him before, he did the tour of Corsica with my ex-in-laws last Summer and he was one of the best climbers. He was less in shape this time because of little riding so far this Summer and I think he was a bit burned down, but quite happy, when we finished.

And I must say: the friend I was riding with is amazing. I LOVE riding with this guy. He's such a gentleman. Although he races is much faster than most, he's always pacing himself so that it will remain enjoyable for the slowest person in the bunch, and peppering things up for himself as needed (going down the big hill he just climbed and up again while we slug up, for example). He pedals flawlessly, in a very straight line, points out potholes, and has cool stories to tell from the races. I really feel lucky to be riding with this guy and even to feel that he enjoys it!! I wish you all to have a person like that in your cycling life!

Now what am I going to do tomorrow and Sunday? Probably take a ride to my parents (and then drop in the pool!!!) tomorrow, and Sunday a bit of hills after breakfast and then go and try to raise my tan lines a bit, reading a book on the Mont Royal by the tamtams (there's a weekly improv drum fest in Montreal at the foot of the Mont Royal) in a bikini and perhaps even dance a bit...

What a great city to live in. And then I'm moving to Vancouver in September. How lucky can you get?