🍩🚴 Great Cycle Challenge – Choose Your Donut Run! 🚴🍩
- Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
- Time: 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
- Location: 2001 University Ave E, Waterloo ON N2K 0E6, Canada
Event Details
Join us Saturday, August 15 for a fun ride on the G2G Rail Trail. Whether you're looking for a challenge or just want to enjoy breakfast with fellow GCC riders, there's a distance for everyone!
🚴 Choose Your Ride:
🔹 100 KM – Leave RIM Park at 7:00 AM
🔹 60 KM – Leave Elmira at 8:15 AM
🔹 20 KM – Leave Linwood at 9:30 AM
🚴 Average pace: 18–19 km/h
🥞 We'll all meet at Anna Mae's Restaurant in Millbank for breakfast and their famous apple fritter before heading back.
🎁 Every rider will receive a personalized GCC NFC keychain linked to their Great Cycle Challenge page.
Please Bring:
💵 Cash for breakfast
🔧 Bike repair kit
💧 Plenty of water
📩 Interested? Send me a message and let me know which distance you'll be riding!
Let's ride together to help give kids fighting cancer the brighter futures they deserve. 💛🚴
Discussion Board
Mark Hiemstra
Parking in Elmira Update
Please park at "Kissing Bridge Trailway Parking At Elmira, Ontario". If you look that up on Google Maps, it should give you directions. We will be meeting there at 8:15ish in the morning.
Adam Lawrence
Hi! If I want to do the 60km run where would I leave my car? I'd be driving out solo and am not clear if all routes end in Waterloo or if they end where you started from!
Mark Hiemstra
Welcome to the ride Adam.
You can meet us at the Elmira Pet Food Plant. Just across the street you will see lots of parking right beside the trail. We will be there around 8:15is in the morning.
Mark Hiemstra
Just two days away. We would love to have some more riders join us. If you have questions, please send me a message.
Ann Scully
Would love to join but coming from Barrie. What is my fastest way to join you? Don’t think I’m up to leaving at 5 am but maybe! Millbank is it the halfway point?
Mark Hiemstra
Ann thanks for your interest in the group. Millbank is the 1/2 way point, we could meet you there, and you could come down as far as you like, then head back to Millbank.
Ann Scully
Yes as it is a two drive down but I don’t know the trail so I may get up really early or stay at a friends and meet you!
