Mixing it up makes all the difference!
Woke up at some un-godly hour to complete a ride into Vancouver. I usually complete a nice loop from Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal along Marine Drive to UBC. I added a nice little loop to Iona Beach which considering my motivation level lately, made all the difference for me to enjoy the trip. 100km in the bag. On the way back on the ferry, I bump into a rider that I passed along the way a couple of times enroute along Marine Drive (I stopped for coffee) and she was on a older mountain bike with normal clothes on. I probably looked so foreign to her with all my biking specific clothes (called a kit in our circles). She complained that her seat made her butt sore, but she was really looking forward to seeing Gibsons (somehow the pain would be worth it when she got to her designation). She said that she's never been to the coast and decided to take her bike from the west end to the ferry and to Gibsons- good for her! She wasn't too ke...