My last Ride Towards GCCC Challenge

There was a huge rain storm this morning & then I was busy updating my Tablet's Android OS & the apps before I could make a new work for my RedBubble online store; SingingStrings.

I finally got out to ride by 12:30 PM when it was 85°F/29.5C with lots of humidity. I rode over to the Ganatchio Trail to find as much shade as I could, then to the Detroit River front area of the trail until I hit the Town of Tecumseh. Then I came and went to and from the the McHugh bridge and Wyandotte on the trail until I got to 18.5 KM before riding home. Like in the story OZ I'm saying "I'm melting" as it was 89+ & humidity outside. The rest of my rides are going to be small bonus rides. Smartwatch picture.

12th GCCC Bike Ride

Somehow My Ride didn't get fully recorded by the Great Cycle Challenge Canada app. It must have gotten disconnected when I shared my data with my friend after riding 7.71 KM according to my bike's odometer at McDonald's while meeting my friend for lunch and playing some games with my old phone that doesn't have a SIM card or data. I'm on Freedom Mobile and have 86 Gigs of Data a month so when my friend run low on data I share it. Luckily I track my rides 3 ways; my smartwatch, my bike's odometer and the Great Cycle Challenge Canada app, so I was able to get the record of 20.9 off of my bike's odometer (see picture with today's blog). Somehow my watch only recorded the second part of my GCCC Ride today.

My next ride will be my last required ride to reach 250 Km of my GCCC challenge.

11th GCCC Ride

Wish I would have used Arnica yesterday because I'm still sore from yesterday's 27+ Km ride and I only rode 23+ Kms today. The good news is that I now only have 39 Kms left to ride to finish my challenge. I'm still $241 short of my $500 goal to help the Children fight cancer. If you haven't donated already, please give now.

Ride number 10

Ride number 10 was a good long ride of 27+ Km. I had to stop twice to rest for my butt and once to eat because I was starved, so I had some of my honey roasted peanuts, an oatmeal fruit bar and some water. I had water quite a few times on my ride to keep from getting dehydrated. The weather was gorgeous with sunny skies and very few little white puffy clouds with the temperature ranging from the starting at 70 going to 78 F on the way home. My ride started with me going further south away from the water where it was a little warmer and then I went north towards Riverside drive where I was riding my bike along the lake until I hit the mouth of the river and the riding on the Ganatchio Trail. I stayed in the trail until I completed 26.5 Km and then I rode home. Even after having a nice chocolate milk to repair the damage I did while riding the bike to my body I went to go take a shower and almost passed out from being so tired from riding the ride. So you can tell that 13,000 plus k that my watch tried to say I did last time was not real for sure. I would have never been able to do over 13000 km in real life. This time I stayed away from the water treatment plant near suicide Hill and the Ganatchio Trail because something affected my SmartWatch and my bike's odometer there last time.

After today's ride I only have 63 km more to go to finish my challenge.

9th Ride Equipment Readings

Today was my 9th Ride for GCCC. It started out nice outside and then cooled down. Because of the rain 🌧️ Friday to Sunday and the unseasonably cold summer weather yesterday, I lost 4 riding days in a row. Thankfully according to the GCCC app, I was able to record slightly over 21 km today for my 9th ride.

But both my bike's odometer and my smartwatch had crazy readings today. My bike's odometer went up to 19.5 kms and then dropped down to 13 km out on my ride and by the time I got home it said 14.5 km.

But what is even weirder is how my smartwatch acted. I stopped the recording of my ride on my watch and saw that it said that I road over 13000 km. Was I in a time vortex? Or was something reacting to my watch. Don't believe me, like I didn't believe it. Checkout the picture of my ride recording from my watch. Strange stuff going on with my equipment today.

8th Ride: Race Against Approaching Storm

I was going to ride my bike out to meet my friend on Manning road, but she was already home from another engagement, so I had to wait to ride after seeing her and take my car. While I was out with her, I checked my phone and saw that I had little time to ride left before the storm was around according to the Weather Network. So I hurried home, got out, road to the Ganatchio Trail via Little River Rd and rode as much as I could several times between the McHugh bridge and Wyandotte on the trail until I saw dark clouds in the west. I hope it won't be raining on Saturday and it won't be as humid.

Don't forget to tell your friends about the #GreatCycleChallengeCanada so they can join us in helping to #FightKidsCancer too. My name is Brigitte Laskowski.

7th Ride

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, I ventured from Riverside where I live to the Tecumseh Mall area trying to catch up with my husband who took his bike to pay a bill during his GCCC Ride but he had already left by the time I was ready to start my ride. So since he said that he was going to go into Forest Glade, I decided to look for him, so I rode down the path along Lauzon Pkwy to Forest Glade and the turned left into the parking lot near the new donation centre but when I cut across I found only a bumpy worn grass path until the first street. On the next block, a side walk appeared. After that I bike on road bike lane was there. I rode on it until at the Forest Glade plaza because the Windsor City bus being in the way and entered the plaza until the corner and then crossed on foot to the other side of the road and took the bike lane again until just before Tecumseh Rd. Never could find my hubby, so I crossed on foot Tec. Rd to the North side's bike trail and road that until Banwell to Little River Rd crossed Banwell to cross Little River Rd and road to Jarvis to go say hello to my daughter, though she was home, she didn't hear because she was doing Yoga after working, so I proceeded to the Riverside Dr part of the Ganatchio Trail to Manning Rd and then turned around to go back home but my daughter called, so I rode to my daughter's house for a short 15 minute visit and the I rode back up Jarvis to the Ganatchio Trail until Frank Ave. to the other side of the Shoppers Drug Mart and went to the corner of Lauzon Rd and Wyandotte and crossed into the gas station parking lot to Frank Ave to ride home. By the time I got home I had ridden just over 23 KM.

Tip for the other riders of long rides; I was glade that I packed some honey roasted peanuts and a breakfast bar into my fanny pack which I rigged onto my handle bar of my bike because by the time I got to Manning Rd and Riverside Dr., I was hungry. The peanuts stopped me for getting over exhausted and my stomach from eating itself which last time gave me the shakes. Pack a snack for rides more than 15 KM.

6th Ride to Devonshire Mall & back

If it were not for the love instilled in me for the children by God, I wouldn't have sacrificed my butt for 23 kilometers to and from Devonshire Mall today. I would have rode a much shorter ride today. But what can I say. I love children and I hate when they're sick. Here's my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro Smartwatch map in the picture. Arnica gel here I come.

5th GCCC Bike Ride

Well today was a really interesting ride being that I went in all different directions but I did get my 17 Km in on which I needed to catch up. One thing I noticed though. map my fitness and map my ride are not doing very well. Somehow they are not recording much of my ride. This time I only had 7 Km of the ride recorded instead of the whole 17 Km. So once again I'm showing how far I went with both my amaze Fitbit Bip 3 Pro Smartwatch and the distance recorder on my bike. I want to thank those who have already donated and in a few days it'll be a double donation day so that would be a really great day too donate some money to kick kids Cancer's butt as your donations get doubled.

Ride 4

I cut my ride 3 Km short because I have to shop at Costco before they close. So today I rode 12 kms instead of 15 km. What is not good is that the MapMyRide and MapMyFitness apps through the Great Cycle Challenge app short changed me 4 kms by only tracking 8 kms. Thank God that I was also tracking my ride with my bike and my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro Smartwatch which recorded my 12 kms and my GPS map. See picture below ⬇️.

Too Slow To Move In Morning?

Why am I too slow to move in the morning? I got up at 7:45 am but I didn't get out for my Aug. 3rd ride until just after 11 am. Oh yeah, that's right cleaned some pans and bowls, put dishes away from the dishwasher, read my Bible (middle of Romans), created a Bible verse picture, posted it on X, changed and fixed my hair. And then I had to put my bike back together after getting out of the garage, set the tracking on my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro watch, on my bike, MapMyRide to go through MapMyFitness to connect to the Great Cycle Challenge Canada app on my phone. Then I was finally ready to ride. In the pictures is what my bike and watch recorded. Hope more donations come in today.

Friday August 2nd, 2024

I road in between rain systems today. Cloud cover was everywhere around Windsor Ontario most of the day. We also had some high down pours. I tried recording my ride with MapMyFitness but out of my 15.8 ride recorded by E-Bike MapMyFitness only recorded 1.5 km of my ride. So one again I recorded my ride manually taking off .5 km off my ride like my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro likes to do all the time. In the picture showing my Amazfit GPS map and distance I forgot to record my ride right away until after over 1.2+ km. Not use to tracking with 3 different devices, so I missed my watch for a bit. I started at home and ended at home. I use my E-Bike because of my asthma and the humidity and heat.

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Great Cycle Challenge Canada Ride 1

August 1, 2024

A very hot and steamy sweaty ride. I didn't have the app MapMyFitness downloaded or connected before my ride today because I was hoping to be able to connect my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro watch and the Zen app to the Great Cycle Challenge Canada app. Here's what my watch recorded for today's ride. My watch said I rode 15.85 km but my bike's odometer said I rode 16.3 km. Why is there over a .5 km discrepancy?

Last Training ride done

And the last training ride with my husband today and boy was it hot and humid on the way home came home and my face is still burnt. It is red and burnt. Guess I'm not going to need any blush on my face. LOL went to get the first picture of half my ride and my GPS on my watch has me riding in the middle of the Detroit River on to peche Island and back. That's so weird! Anyway here's the picture from my e-bike showing how far I road of which I rode part of the way on zero assistance. Tip when done riding your bike grab some juice, and I mean non-sweetened juice, and put some salt in it. It makes you feel better.

July 27 2024

I rode just over 15 Km in an 1 hr & 8 mins and I feel like I need another shower. So hot. I rode mostly on the Ganatchio Trail once I got to Riverdale Rd near Riverside Dr. and rode it until almost Manning Rd/County Rd 19 and then turned back. The sky was very sunny without any cloudy and there wasn't enough shade. Glade I took my steel Britta bottle full of water with me. On E-Bike it said I rode 15.5 Km but my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro said I only rode 15 Km. I'm thinking when the Great Cycle Challenge Canada starts on August 1st I am going to need to ride earlier in the day when it is cooler.

Friday July 26 2024

This was a very late afternoon ride which I found to be surprisingly easy to do but then it was a day just under 80°F / 27°C. I needed the ride to make room for the pasta dinner my husband was making. On my E-Bike the picture I took at the end of the ride showed that I rode 15.1 Km but my Amazfit Bip 3 Pro showed slightly less.

River/Lake side rode training Ride

Heading out to my destination it was nice and cool. I only had a tech Bluetooth speaker and WiFi phone problem (the phone that does not have a SIM card in it) 1 time, because on my YouTube Music playlist there was a song that would not play. I like to ride my bike with music playing because it gets me to ride further than I would without music. My husband likes to listen to Podcasts instead because he likes talk radio.

At my halfway point, I stopped for lunch but on my way back and I noticed that there dark rain clouds not too far out from where I was. So I rode down the trail as fast as was allowed until I got to Greenpark Blvd, and then increased my speed to 32 kmh to Wyandotte and turned onto Wyandotte Rd and rode 32 kmh up to the hill just before Riverdale Rd and then slowed down to 20 kmh until I reached Watson and Wyandotte Rd. I never got one drop of rain on me even though it was and still is threatening rain. We'll at least my heart and lungs are doing pretty good considering how fast I rode back.

My total training ride was 15.35 km.

Ride back home from Wendy's

My husband, who has done several Great Cycle Challenge challenges in the past and is doing it again this year, rode out to meet me at Wendy's. When I was done playing games on my phone with my friend, my husband and I rode back home the coolest way by riding down Manning to the lake/river front which connects to the Ganatchio trail. It felt a lot better and I was much cooler. I did have to stop half way of my 9.96 Km ride going home because my butt is not yet ready for extended rides because of the time I had to rest when I twisted and then retwisted my left foot again. Good news is that my left foot is 98% healed. I won't be riding my bike wearing sandals again.

Training ride to meet my friend

I rode about 7.5 Km out from my neighborhood in Windsor to the Wendy's Tim Hortons double store near #22 and Manning Rd. It was a hot ride from my house until I made it into the Town of Tecumseh. When I finally got into Wendy's my face was beet red. But no problem I got myself a medium Chocolate Frosty and it cooled me down. Saturday July 20th, 2024.

Training To Ride To Kick Cancers Butt

I've never done a long ride of 250 km on a bike before, but with my friend's husband's passing because of Cancer and my brother beating stage 1 cancer, I just don't want children to suffer from cancer. I'm hoping they do research with Ivermectin on kids cancers to #KickCancer_sButt.

Right now I am at the stage where I am trying to get my rides up to 15 kms in one bike ride. Usually I can do a 10 km ride but that's not when it's humid or cool. I have asthma but I'm no quitter. I am hoping to go over 250 km in August. I already have a few training rides posted up on my Facebook page. Looking forward to your donations to the

#GreatCycleChallengeCAN.