Family Cycling in Montreal

“If you go this way, it will be about six kilometres.”   A sharp pain hit my chest as I heard those words.  The young employee at Ça Roule, a cycling shop in Old Montreal, was tracing a course on a map with his finger.  “It’s an easy route.”

Well, easy if you cycle every week, but not if you haven’t taken your dusty bike out of the basement for over seven years.  I do spend about ten minutes on an exercise bike sporadically, but I had a feeling that patchy activity I like to pass off as physical fitness wasn’t going to be much help in this situation.  And we weren’t just talking about a few kilometres on a cruiser bike.

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