Finally a good ride, even with a hangover...

I ended up drinking 17 beers in total last night, although they were light (that's my attempt at humor), and got to bed at 4:30 am. Needless to say I woke up with a bit of a hangover. It's great having a bar in the house, no drinking a driving and hanging out with Alice is fun for me. Last night I told Reid about Frank Correnti Cigars. They are a 3 generation cigar shop in Toronto that makes their own cigars, old school style. It is a hole in the wall, very difficult to find, you have to go down a scary alley, and they have women hand rolling cigars. It's are really cool place and Reid wanted me to take him to see it. On the walls they have a lot of pictures with celebrities and the owner of the shop. Alyssa and Alice also decided to come with us. It was a take your family to the cigar shop day.

Driving in Toronto is always an adventure, it's busy and it takes forever to go a short distance and finding parking can be a challenge. We ended up going for lunch, picking up my bike from Endurosport and getting a couple of cigars. It turns out that the squeaking on my bike wasn't the crank, but my speed play pedals. I guess they seized up and started to make noise. We must have drove about 3 hours today. When I got home I was really tired from the highway driving and last night. It was around 5:30 pm and right when I got home I jumped on the new Cervelo and went for a tempo ride. It was only 2 C out and below 0 C with windchill, so I bundled up and rode outside to see if in fact is was the pedals when I went up hills. It was. Finally I had a ride that averaged over 30 kph. By the time I got home from the ride I felt much better. Tonight I'm going to Reid's hockey game and he wants me to film him on the video camera.

Tempo Bike : 59:12 / 30.34 / 30.7 kph

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