November 15, 2025 -Ingersoll a Santa Claus Parade
15 Nov 2025
Today I was able to participate in the Ingersoll Santa Claus parade! The weather (rain) held off until the end of the parade fortunately, and the temperature was conducive to this senior being on her bicycle! With the help of two high school students (who each got 3 volunteer hours) and one mom, we handed out 300 candy canes, 5 pounds of peppermint pinwheel candies and 300 glow sticks, donated by a couple of town stores, to the people lining the parade route! Just my way of thanking the many people who support me all year long in raising funds to fight childhood cancer!
Posted 20 days ago
7.7 km ride - 2025 Ingersoll Santa Claus Parade - Saturday, November 15, 2025
Logged this ride 20 days ago
Monday, October 27, 2025
31 Oct 2025
While Rob's unfortunate experience detained him in Canada, we got to benefit from having him home with us for 4 days. While my cycling has mostly come to a close for this year (although the day of the Santa Claus Parade predicts 8 degrees and sunny, in which case I will be biking), Monday was a sunny day with 12 degree temperatures, Rob went for an 11.5 kilometer walk, and so I decided to bike along. Thank goodness for bike lanes and bike paths. What a wonderful time we had, chatting, bonding, and taking in some of the Halloween sites in town. He's back in Belgium now, but it was a great time spent together! See you on November 15, 2025 for the Santa Claus Parade!
Posted 35 days ago
September 27, 2025
27 Sep 2025
One last ride for GCC 2025 with Mark Hiemstra. Twenty eight kilometers wasn't anything to break a sweat over for Mark, but close to my maximum kilometers I do at any given time. The weather was perfect for riding today, and, since we had not ever biked together before today, this was a great opportunity to get out for one last ride. After lunch at Tim Horton's, we headed back to my house, were we had a little sit down relax session to catch up on GCC talk and then Mark headed to Woodstock and then back home to Waterloo. Thank you so much for the lovely medallion Mark, and for coming down and doing a ride with me. We will have to try to do a ride together again next year....maybe on the G2G trail, who knows?
Posted 69 days ago
28.3 km ride - September 27, 2025 with Mark Hiemstra - Saturday, September 27, 2025
Logged this ride 69 days ago
September 21, 2025 post GCC 2025 ride
21 Sep 2025
Well my OCD really couldn’t allow my kilometers to sit at 3699 so I had to get out on this gorgeous afternoon for a quick ride to fix that but also want to watch the Jays win this afternoon!🤞. So now I am at 3701 km so now what🤷🏻♀️. I know there is one more planned ride for this coming Saturday so will add a few more for this year! Fundraising has been phenomenal this year, with one more speaking event for this week and then we are finished for GCC 2025!
Posted 75 days ago
1.4 km ride - Post GCC 2025 ride - Sunday, September 21, 2025
Logged this ride 75 days ago
August 28, 2025 - Day 28 #2
28 Aug 2025
So in looking at my totals just now, I really feel like I need to do one more kilometer, to make it a nice round 3700 kilometers! But then I might as well try to raise another $57 to make the fundraising a nice even $43,000. So I need 57 people to pledge $1.00 or 1 person to put in $57.00. Anyone interested?
Posted 99 days ago
August 28, 2025 - Day 28
28 Aug 2025
Today is the day I finished my 300 kilometers to ride in Arlene's memory, and for all the kids who are still fighting cancer, and for those who did not survive.....there are so many of them!!!! We continue to do this year after year, and still there are kids dying from cancer every year. All we can do, is to continue to fundraise, so at the very least, research can happen, to give better treatment options and outcomes. I am finished my riding for this year, and there are a few more things to do before I wrap this up for 2025.....for one thing, another $57.00 would give me a nice round total of $43,000.00, so if you can find it in you to donate that, I will be grateful, but even without that, I am so thankful for all the support you have all given to my efforts this year! I know I said this would be my last year, but man it's going to be difficult to stop, so stay tuned and see what happens next year! It might look a bit different, but I just might be back!!!
Posted 99 days ago
12.3 km ride - August 28, 2025 - Day 28 - Thursday, August 28, 2025
Logged this ride 99 days ago
