One Week (and a bit) In

The sun is beating down; it’s constant and it’s exhausting. Like many places, the heat and humidity have been high for what seems like forever. I spend a lot of time on my porch.

Love the sun..but my goodness, I’ll be thrilled to feel a downpour. And there’s rain coming- I can see the storm on my weather tracker.

And, as happens more often than not, and not just this year, the rains stop at the border and dissipate. Not just keeping fentanyl out, are they.

The grass is still green, but things are starting to show the stress. And I know it’s not just here and it’s worse in many other places. Much worse, even, just an hour or so north of here.

So,I’m at 197km, and was hoping it be just that much past 200 by now. I’m getting short ~20km rides in pretty regularly. And I’m pretty good at doing my cycling -specific exercises. Without heading into my personal trainer twice a week, I have to be accountable to myself.

I’m figuring out a decent rhythm… I usually wake up around 4:30 or 5:00. If I do that, I can get on the road, fuelled and warmed up by 6 or 6:30. Which gives me 3 hours or so to ride.

I’m not a fan of heat exhaustion. Or heat stroke. Had the former. Avoiding the latter like crazy. I don’t ride much last 10 am and not again until after 6.

And then, if all works out, we can go to Rondeau Park and ride in the cool of the evening a few nights a week.

And get ice cream.

My current go-to is White Chocolate 2 River Ripple. Ripples of berry and fudge and little tangy berry and chocolate chunks. Just a small though.

When I started this 5 years ago, I planned for a 5-year run, and raising $10K. This is 5 years. I passed $12K (thank you) last year.

This will be my final year-at least for a couple of years. At least… that’s what I’m thinking at the moment. There are other things happening in August, other rides, etc and I think I may want to do some of those.

We’ll see.

It’s cleanse day today and tomorrow, so they’re also rest days.

I’ll be back at it on Wednesday, which is also Kick Cancer’s Butt Day…so donations on that day go further. The Gannon Family is offering $1.3 million in matching donations, and we tend to go way over that, so they’re also rest pro-rate it over all donations.

The heat is …a lot.

The cancer and treatments these kids are going through are a lot more tiring and draining.

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