C3 Egg Nog Jog.

AC XC 2025.

(Twas) the night before.

Powering the Mito.

hopefully it's not a mirage.

Kicking up dust, chased by a dog, and thinking I'd made the big bucks; just the 90-minute post-work adventure ride that I needed. 

With my poor Della (road bike) decommissioned at the moment with the lack of a front shifter (I'm still waiting for the part to be in stock online so it can be ordered), it's been a while since I've gotten out and done a proper ride; 8 days to be exact. So it was finally nice to get out and to do something different. Don't get me wrong, hitting the mountain bike trails was a lot of fun, and very challenging, but it just didn't hit the same as opening it up on the open roads! A nice mix of gravel to test out the setup for another great adventure on tap tomorrow with Russ Watson; no, I'm not going to spoil what we're doing, you'll just have to wait for the Strava post 😉. It felt great to hit the gravel roads and some single-track.

Coming back through the old UoG turf grass institute it felt like I was somewhere in Kansas or the prairie and not at all in Guelph, and a nice little city escape. But that's when a dog named Lincoln 🐶 started chasing me and he was relentless! I think I got up to 40km/hr+ and he was keeping up with me, that’s one fit doggo. I didn't want to let him get too far from his owner, so I tried to get him tired 😂. Danger eventually adverted. Then in my final km from home, I see some dude in the middle of Edinburgh and cars with their 4-ways on. I think to myself did he get hit? Is he all right? As I get closer, I see he is collecting something. The closer I get; I start to see it looks like $50 bills by the red paper-like object swirled up and lifted by the cars passing by. Thinking to myself, ah man what shity luck this guy had that he's dropped his money and it's being blown around the street. I slow down and stop, start picking up the straight $50 bills left, right, and centre. I had collected maybe 5-10 before I actually looked at them; they were fake. When I approached the man, he said the same thing and that's what everyone else thought too at first, that they were real! I spoke to a lady that was there from when the money was first dropped, and she said that some guy with stacks of these fake $50 ran to the middle of the road and just threw it in the air then ran into the bushes. Some kind of prank? Who knows. The cops were called as cars frantically stopped and people were just in the middle of the road; dangerous, and not to mention the whole thing just seemed sketchy the more I heard about it. You can't script this, what a bizarre and unexpected (to say the least) end to the ride! Definitely one for the memory bank; not the real bank...see what I did there 😜.

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AC XC 2025.

(Twas) the night before.

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hopefully it's not a mirage.

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