We took breakfast at the Resort, and started up the road by 9am in a beautiful day, a little chilly, but we can forgive that. We passed the power station which used to be the Mad Moose, and continued up hill, and continued and continued. It took 80 minutes to do the first 15km, and I did a quick calculation that we wouldn’t get to SSM before 7:30pm at this rate. Fortunately the terrain flattened as went along and all we had to fight was the headwind.
We stopped for lunch at the Voyager Restaurant at 51km and met up with a couple from Anne Arbor on a Tandem. Swapped a story or two, then as soon as we got on the road we were overtaken by a group of Montreal Policemen going from Vancouver to MTL and raising money for the Missing Children’s Network. We had a nice chat for 5minutes, it’s really good being chaperoned by a squad car up front and a paddy wagon with its lights on at the back.
We made really good time until Goulais River where we stopped for chocolate milk, then there was One Mile hill, a really nasty little climb. Fortunately after that it was all downhill to our camping spot at Vélorution.
Vélorutionis a bike shop that gives free camping to cyclists, they also had a nine speed cassette, and knew where I could get a nine-speed chain. They also lent me an adjustable wrench so that I could do the work. They showed us our camping spot out back and the biking track that they had made for the amusement of the local youth. Real fine folks one and all: Pat, Jan and André. We picked up the chain at the Duke of Windsor bike shop, and were very expertly dealt with too byRob White. SSM is lucky to be served by such professional bike shops.
We will change the cassette tomorrowearly and be on our way to Iron Bridge.
Average 19.2kph
Height climbed 800m up, 795m down
Today’s distance 125km
Total distance 6272km
That’s all the news that’s fit to blog.
Night, night.
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