Today was the first Alcatel-Lucent Sunday Bikeday of 2009, starting a season of Sunday quadracycling all the way into downtown Ottawa that will last until 6 September. Well at least it should have been the first Alcatel-Lucent Sunday Bikeday, but we didn't go.
Usually we are very keen to take advantage of these events and the chance to put in 30 km of quadracycling, enjoy the sunshine and the warm morning air, before the Colonel By Drive is re-opened to cars at 1300 hrs. But we got up this morning to a temperature of +3C and winds howling to 45 km/hr, giving wind-chills well below zero. The weather system that had dumped six inches of snow on western Manitoba had arrived here in eastern Ontario. It didn't bring any snow, although the temperatures were close to that mark, but it was way too cold to go out quadracycling. I wonder if anyone from Alcatel-Lucent was out there manning the checkpoints? I hope they didn't freeze! I also wonder if the normal assortment of early Sunday morning cyclists, skateboarders, baby-walkers and in-line skaters went out. Somehow I doubt it.
We went out for a walk after lunch and wore coats and sweaters. Ruth wore her gloves and I wished I had worn mine.
The weather is supposed to warm up later this week, into the high 20s. That makes next weekend look like a better bet, except the NCC website carries this warning: "On May 24, 2009, Colonel By Drive will be part of the Ottawa Marathon route and will therefore not be accessible for Alcatel-Lucent Sunday Bikeday participants."
Phhtttt!
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