Sunday, July 29, 2007

Day 54: Wiarton to Agnes' house in Mississauga, Greater Toronto 194km

sWell readers we almost hit the dizzy heights of 200km and I feel we deserve a few days off after this. We split the day into three sections to try and make it easier on ourselves. We kept the breaks short and cycled as hard as we could but due to a headwind all day long we were out from 8.30am to 10.15pm. The other annoying thing about today was that we were constantly going up hill and with only slight very short downhills as reward. This makes it mentally hard as part of pushing yourself up the hills is the fact that you know you are going to be going down the other side. Now that we are in southern Ontario there is 10 times the amount of traffic and people than we have been used to so the highway was busy all day long. The last 60km we did was on a back road which was very welcome apart from the fact that it had the steepest hills of the province so far and there have been some beastly hills in Ontario. When we were around 40km from Agnes' families home the daylight ended and we had to ride on a country road in the dark with an small back light each and no reflective gear. Agnes wasn't to keen on this but we plugged away and made it eventually to be greeted by Agnes' parents who were waiting for us in their front garden. They had put a Canada flag on the door and written on it 4,400km which is approximately what we have covered, which was a great touch I thought.
We now have 4 days off planned where we are going to put the bikes in the garage and not look at them until Monday when we set off for the last leg of the trip to Halifax on the Atlantic Ocean.

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