Tomorrow the ride officially starts! Our first day is pretty easy-about 84 km heading east out of Vancouver and heading towards Mission, BC. They’re starting us out ‘easy’ the first few days, to get us warmed up into the riding, and to ease going through the Rockies, and then will do 124 km on the third riding day. Apparently this is a tough day as it’s hilly and a bit dodgy on some of the roads. After that it looks like most of the days are around 124 to 172km, which is pretty manageable, considering we have the day to do it. So far as training distances back to back, we did the Rideau Lakes ride from Ottawa to Kingston (180km) and then back the next day, a few weekends back. This year’s ride was a lot easier than last year, due to last year’s intense 42 degree heat on the roads (although this year was freezing cold, again, good training for the crazy weather patterns we may be about to encounter.) The ride back to Vancouver from Victoria was very pretty, the cycling route taking us o...