Beautiful ride today and we were so ahead of ourselves we stopped off at Tim's for some hot chocolate and coffee... upon arriving at the school there was not a single bike in the rack.

Would appear that once upon a time we all rode our bikes to school and now it has just become an annual event... the message seems to have gotten lost that if you can ride your bike to school one day, you can ride it for two... and then three...

To put some perspective on this... my daughters have been riding back and forth to school for 3 years and the round trip is 14km / 8 miles and will do this in all but the most craptastic and cold weather.

I understand that many of their classmates live much closer and think our 7km ride is epic... my youngest does not even consider this to be a good warmup.