Cycling le P'tit Train Du Nord Trail
I wasn't sure if I was in shape to do it. At best, I thought it would take a lot longer to complete each leg, with lots of stops along the way. At worst, I thought I'd have to find a way to be shuttled from wherever I stopped to our destination for the night. You see, I didn't train (no pun intended) for this ride. Not much. I had ridden a couple of times to Bruce Pit but those rides weren't particularly long, at just over 20 kilometres. We did a 40K ride between Osgoode and Metcalfe, and I did one circuit of my usual Barrhaven to Kars ride, which is 42 kms. We cycled from Carleton Place to Stittsville and back, once, at another 40K. And DW and I rode from home to the NCC River House, along the Ottawa River, in Rockcliffe, which was our longest ride, at 50K. But that was it before we left for Saint-Jérôme. Six rides in two months, totalling about 214 kms, just over what we were planning to do in only four days on the Petit Train du Nord. And only one of those rides i...
