Road Bike Ride – Central Saanich – Victoria, BC – Groundhog Shadows

Posted on March 6th, 2010

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Cycling, gps route, Locomotion, road bike ride, Saanich Peninsula, Victoria

It’s the first weekend in March, 2010 and I believe numerous groundhogs (people actually) came out of their holes and saw their shadows for the first time today. Apparently many of the groundhogs felt it was wise and perhaps safer to enjoy their shadows in a virtual reality of sorts by traveling in special groundhog transportation devices (cars). There were groundhogs (people) everywhere today and their presence was definitely noticed along sunny Dallas Road. It was exciting to witness all this groundhog activity and it was particularly nice to see that many groundhogs chose enjoy their shadows without the benefit of their special transportation devices.

If I’m going to describe other people as groundhogs, then I guess I shall be one too. For the record, I was out of my hole and enjoying my shadow back in January without the safety of my groundhog transportation device (car). Today I did what I would describe as a medium length road bike ride (based on my current longest ride of just over 100km) through Downtown Victoria and Central Saanich. I started the ride with Michelle and one of her friends who was experiencing the joy/horror of riding a road bike for the first time in years. I think she did OK. After about 10km we went our separate ways and I headed out to Central Saanich via Prospect Lake Road. My preferred moniker for this road is the Roller Coaster as it has lots of ups, downs, and corners. The Roller Coaster’s one shortcoming is that the road surface is kind of rough; if a real roller coaster was this bumpy its riders would probably suspect that track failure was pending along with certain death. Thankfully, I had enough sauce today to make the Roller Coaster feel like a roller coaster instead of a 15 minute suffer fest.

GPS Data: 57.4km – 2h00m – 28.8km/h – GPS Route