Sunday - July 29, 2007

Well, the nice weather didn’t last, it was overcast when we woke up but at least the rain held off until we got on the road so John didn’t get wet hooking up. It rained a fair bit between Stephenville and Corner Brook, but then it stopped.

We were slowed down for about 25 km by a bicycle race, there was only one lane on the Trans Canada open, the other was closed off for the cyclists. I have to give them a lot of credit, it appeared that there were over 300 of them (going by the numbers they were wearing) and the ones going our way were going uphill most of the time, and I mean UPHILL. I was exhausted just watching them!!! At the end of the turnaround point there were a lot of joggers so we don’t know if there was jogging as part of the race as we had also seen cyclists going the other way from us. Cycling seems to be quite popular here but the hills would be terrible.