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.