Sandi and Lewis' ride across Canada

Day 36-Terrace Bay Nipigon to Terrace Bay, Ontario Distance: 108km Temp: cold! Today’s ride finally delivered on the promise of the hills-we climbed 1030 meters today; the hills ranged in distance from 2 to 5 km, but there was one section after lunch, and on the last 40 km that was on a more or less incline for approximately 12 km-it just kept going and going-legs were heavily objecting by the end of it. To compensate for the challenging terrain, the scenery was pretty spectacular as the hills seemingly lifted us into the clouds, and had us at such heights that we had incredible views of Lake Superior and the surrounding areas-this is definitely postcard country. Of late my bike has started to make very curious noises; I took it into to see Bike Guru in Thunder Bay, and had my bottom bracket changed, however the groaning noises have stopped but now it’s squeaking. As there were often no other noises to hear beside the wind in our ears, and the squeak of my bike, the mind starts to do o...

Day 35-Nipigon Thunder Bay, to Nipigon Distance: 109 km Temp: 27 degrees We kept hearing from people about how bad the hills were; we were warned by the organizer, as well as by all kinds of people along the way About The Hills. We all worked ourselves into a frenzy about today’s ride, which as it went along, only delivered little ‘hilletts’-nothing too substantial. We kept thinking that perhaps the worst of them were saved until the end-but nothing that was worth the hype and hooplah. I thought that maybe we had ridden such monsters over the course so far, that we had become un-fazable, so fit that monstrous hills no longer had any affect-surely not possible. Anyhow, we all remained suspicious as although the terrain was certainly challenging, it in no way presented us with the hardship that was promised (although Hedwig certainly had a good go, as we had strong winds for most of the day.) Since we had all slept so poorly in residence at Lakehead (due to the heat) we were all tired an...