Tour of Calgary complete vids edit
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Summary
Beautiful morning in Calgary, riding along the Elbow river and taking in the beauty of the scenery. A beautiful ride through the city and back home at home in the old abode. Enjoy the ride and rest of the day!
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Hello there. I'm in Northwest Calgary right now. A beautiful morning. I started off at about 12
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degrees so I've got the arm and leg warmers on this morning. And I just wanted to get a little
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video here because this is one of my favorite places when I ride in the Northwest. I'll turn
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the camera around here and you can see the Bow River that winds its way through Northwest Calgary.
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And that's it up there in that direction. You can see the Rocky Mountains maybe out in the distance
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there. A little hazy but still lots of snow out there. And over there in the distance you can kind
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of see, as Canada Olympic Park, so a little snow on the hill. People do ski there in the wintertime
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and they've been making snow so it hasn't all melted away at this point. And you can see the ski jump
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tower. The ski jump tower was built for the 1988 Olympics. You might remember that we're here in
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Calgary. But they're not regulation anymore. They can't use them. So they've reached the end of
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their usefulness. If they need a lot of work, they're going to tear it down. So that will soon
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be gone from this part of Calgary. You won't see it anymore. But beautiful morning here in Calgary.
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Temperature's supposed to get to 27 here starting off at about 12 this morning. And weather has been
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just picture perfect after a real crappy winter, I have to say. And here I am now on the Elbow River.
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And now this is just a little bit to the southeast of downtown, the Elbow River. Right there, that's
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the Calgary Stampede grounds. All right. And then if you just go over this way a little bit, there's the
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Scotiabank Saddledome. That's where the Calgary flames play. And you can see downtown Calgary right
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in behind it. So the Elbow River winds all the way through. Calgary twists and turns. And this bike
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path right here, I'm going to take that all the way down. And it follows right along the river. Twist,
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turn, twist, turn, all the way down. And then I'm going to go down towards the northwest of Calgary.
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And that'll take me around the Glenmore Reservoir. So a beautiful day. It's kind of a tour through
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Calgary today. And right now I'm in North Glenmore Park. Turn the camera around. And this is just a
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little bit to the west of the Glenmore Reservoir. And you know, it's funny, I've been just thinking
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about it. I've been riding out here about, I'm about 70k in. About 108k ride today. Excuse me,
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just had an energy bar. Caught in my throat. I've ridden on mostly bike paths, about 95%. But beautiful
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view from here out towards the west. And you see that little bridge down there. And across there.
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I'm going to head out that direction, a little short climb. And then all the way to the northwest
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in the city. And then travel through Fish Creek Park. Pretty much this whole length over into the
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southeast part of Calgary. Again, I just can't stress how nice it is. Beautiful today.
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So I'm now in the southeast part of Calgary. I've worked my way all the way up to the northeast,
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the northwest, the southwest. And now I'm just a little south of where I live in Riverbend.
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That's the Bow River again. And we're looking south in Calgary. And then out towards the west,
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the Rocky Mountains out that way. And then up that way. If you can kind of see, well, it's downtown's
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up that way. So I'm going up that way along the bike path. Another gorgeous view today. I think
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we're supposed to get some thundershowers this afternoon. It's supposed to rain. It's a little
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humid for Calgary, which is never humid. Here I am back home at the old abode. And let's just take a
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look at the tail of the tape. Let's see here. Three hours, 51 minutes of riding, 102 kilometers. And let's
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see here. 53.8 kilometers an hour maximum speed, 703 elevation. So that's how much we went up.
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689 down. 4,323 calories burned at an average speed. No, temperature is 27.8. So not too bad.
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Average cadence, 96 RPM, which is a good, good, good, good, good for me. Knee problems when I was younger.
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Higher cadence is better. I spin as fast as I can. At sometimes on flats, 117, which is pretty fast.
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Anyway, great ride today. First 100k plus ride this year. Needed to do that. And in about a week and a
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half, I do my annual ride from Kananaska's Village to the highest road crossing in the
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Rocky Mountains Highwood Pass and back. Looking forward to that one every year. Love it.