yesterday after work (while i was napping on my deck) i decided after dinner that i was going to head out for a spin after dinner (we had BBQ burgers for dinner so the first 20m of the ride seemed all uphill and into the wind).
i left my place in new brighton (73rd best neighborhood in calgary) and headed south towards cranston (#72). I knew my ride would have two decent climbs; however, i felt i would have the wind to push me home. Of course at the return point the wind seemed to shift and it made the ride home more difficult. A couple of observations on my ride:
. wow, there are a lot of really nice home in riverstone in cranston, what a great location close to the river
. the climbs both up and down are nice workouts. took me roughly 6 min to climb from riverstone up tot eh pathway behind cranston
i then got on some construction road in cranston, followed it underneath the hiway 2 overpass, and the road turned into a bit of a goat path, but i kept going and portaged a couple of times over some river rock and wound up on the shores of the bow. some real nice scenery back there, and it would be awesome if somhow a nice river trail of crushed gravel could be developed along the river for 20 or so k.
Got a couple of great photos but this one i thought turned out nicely:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XVQFYcSkmtKiZNmo8 (for whatever reason i can't figure out how to embed the photo