Kimberly Training Tour

Lunch at Wasa Pub

May 15, 2022

It was cold and clammy this morning at 6C and what was probably close to 100% humidity it was just bone chilling.  Sitting having coffee in the nice warmth of Barry’s motorhome it was really tough to get motivated to get out and hit the road.  The route we had chosen for the day was an out and back to Wasa Pub.  It was an 84 km return route.  The ride out to Wasa Pub had about 150 meters of climb and the remaining 730 meters was the return ride. The Pub opened at noon so the trick was to time it to get there as the pub opened so that you could make it back to camp before the afternoon rain shower showed up. 

The ride out to Wasa was great fun even though it was gray and cold.  Sailing along downhill is always good. Ken was having fun telling us what a great downhill rider he is, claiming he could out coast anyone. Truth was he was crouching down in the drops and pedaling like crazy when no one was looking. 

Right after lunch we got passed by a young woman on a tri-bike.  She was just flying along.  It was pretty flat all the way from Wasa to the corner of hwy 95A (about 5 kms) and by then she was about a km infront of us.  After we turned south on 95A there was an 8-10 km grade of about 6%.  I got within about 50 feet before we crested the hill and then she was gone.   

By time we got back to Kimberly  I was about 10 minutes in front of Ken, so I waited there. When Ken and Barry showed up we went in to the local market and got some chocolate milk.  It was so refreshing.

The last 10 kms into camps was down hill and we just flew down and into camp as the first drops of rain came down.  The Garmin recorded 82.9 kms and a climb of 882.

Terry