July 02, 2010
Developing Thunder Thighs. . .
I spent over four hours on my new bicycle today, and my thighs are aching to prove it. This was only my third ride of the year, and perhaps my enthusiasm carried me away too much.
I cycled from home to Burnaby City Hall to pay our property taxes. Needless to say, going downhill was thrilling, chugging back up the considerable and lengthy slope from the Deer Lake valley to the top of the Kingsway ridge was another matter. But I recovered, and went on to check out the trail all the way to the New Westminster Quay and back to our home in the Edmonds neighbourhood in south Burnaby. By this time I was being routinely passed by svelte young female gazelles as my 50-ish body began to realize its (current!) limits :-).
The lovely new overpass that gets you over the traffic and
down to the New Westminster Quay area.
It truly was a gorgeous day. A view of the mighty Fraser River.
Posted by Paul at July 2, 2010 09:01 PM