Update!!!

The Update:
- 13 days of Cycling
- 12 days of Running

I have now still 1553km to log before I leave in June. With my Bike now in St. Catharines I find this objective to be quite easier. I went on two long bike rides since my bike arriving on thursday.

First I went 32km was an amazing ride all along the welland canal at sunset, I saw a massive turkey. Like up to my waist in height. He was in the middle of the road and I felt it was my objective to get him off the road so I then got off my bike and walked over to him shooing him off the road. Twas a success. I still think it was quiet weird to see a turkey in St. Catharines.

The second ride I attempted today, didn't end with such great results. I attempted to ride 60km a nice loop out to beamsville and back. It started off well. A little cold but as the day went on it got quite a bit warmer. The wind was awful, riding into it and up hills was difficult but still managable. Roughly 20km into the ride I felt like I was having a tough time pedaling and could feel that I wasn't gaining as much speed as I intially had hoped. I looked behind to see that my back tire was completely flat. OH GREAT!!!!! By this point I was no where near St. Catharines, to be honest I was near the town of Jordan. I needed to find a gas station to pump it up to get me home at least. So I turned off my main strip where I was riding and start walking down a street which I had thought was a main street of Jordan, instead surrounded by fields and winnaries. I began to get erally worried. I was way to far from home to walk, didn't have enough money for a cab. Had no idea where the bus station if there was one was. And I was stuck walking in my cycling shoes. I decided I would head into the next business looking place and see if they could give me directions. So in I walked into a place called Upper Canada cheese company. I walked in asking for directions, which then led to these women believing I was too far away from home especially on bike and I looked way to worried. Therefore they offered me a ride back to St. Catharines. From here I could use a pump at a gasstation to get home. I was incredibly luck. This women wasn't even supposed to be at work today, she deicded to come in and help but was done around lunch time, hence when I arrived. So she drove me to St. Catharines and I couldn't thank her enough. She left me and I went to pump up my tire, to only find out that the tires on my bike need special pump, or an adaptor. GREAT!, so now I am at the opposite side of town, freezing and forced to walk in my cycling shoes. Awful news, I figured hey I'll walk downtown to the bike store pump up my tires. Ohhh No won't do that. I get there to find out the store has been moved!!!!! So I go to my last resort, THE BUS! I walk to the terminal ask the first bus if I can come on, bring my bike etc, she says nope. I was crushed, I decide to wait for another bus to see if a different driver would present different results. Sucess!!!! He offers to let me on and drives me back up to my way of town. This trip was scary, and from it I thought about alot of things, had a very discouraging afternoon and have begun to think that maybe i'm not cut out for TDC.........who know's.

a quote to keep us going.

To give anything less than the best is to sacrifice the gift

-Steve Prefontaine