Hinton, Alberta
Edson
Niton Junction
Nojack
Cynthia (Cynthia RV Park & Campground)

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 (69.0 miles)

Cynthia
Drayton Valley
Alsike
Breton
Winfield (Winfields Lions Pioneer Park)

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 (0.0 miles)

Winfield

Monday, August 31st, 2009 (73.3 miles)

Winfield
Village at Pigeon Lake
Falun
Wetaskiwin
Bittern Lake
Camrose (Valleyview Campground)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 (74.1 miles)

Camrose
Kinsella
Irma

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 (72.6 miles)

Irma
Fabyan
Wainwright
ENTER Saskatchewan
Marsden
Neilburg (Museum Campground)

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 (70.3 miles)

Neilburg
Cut Knife
Battleford
North Battleford

Friday, September 4th, 2009 (66.8 miles)

North Battleford
Denholm
Maymont
Radisson
Langham (Riverview RV Park)

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 (60.1 miles)

Langham
Saskatoon
Clavet
Elstow
Painted Rock Campground (8km west of Colonsay)

Sunday, September 6th, 2009 (44.9 miles, brutal headwinds)

Painted Rock Campground
Colonsay
Viscount
Plunkett
Guernsey
Lanigan (Lions Campground)

Monday, September 7th, 2009 (71.1 miles)

Lanigan
Dafoe
Wynyard
Mozart
Elfros
Leslie
Foam Lake (Foam Lake Campground)

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 (67.3 miles)

Foam Lake
Sheho
Insinger
Theodore
Springside
Yorkton
Cherrydale Golf Club & Campground

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 (74.3 miles)

Cherrydale Golf Club
ENTER Manitoba
Roblin
Grandview (Grandview City Park)

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 (82.5 miles)

Grandview
Gilbert Plains
Dauphin
Ste. Rose du Lac
McCreary

Friday, September 11th, 2009 (102.0 miles)

McCreary
Riding Mountain
Neepawa
Gladstone
Woodside
Portage La Prairie (Island Campground)

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 (70.3 miles)

Portage La Prairie
Elie
Winnipeg
Dugald (Dugald Community Center Field)

Sunday, September 13th, 2009 (121.4 miles)

Dugald
Vivian
Ste. Rita
Elma
Rennie
West Hawk Lake
ENTER Ontario
Kenora (Travelodge)

Monday, September 14th, 2009 (16.8 miles)

Kenora
Picnic area a short way outside Kenora

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 (mileage not recorded)

Outside Kenora
Vermillion Bay
Minnitaki
Oxdrift
Dryden (NW Campground & RV Park)

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 (90.6 miles)

Dryden
Wabigoon
Dinorwic
Borups Corners
Ignace
(Pipeline right-of-way about 20 miles east of Ignace)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 (111.4 miles)

Pipeline right-of-way
English River
Upsala
Shabaqua Corners
Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park

Friday, September 18th, 2009 (81.4 miles)

Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park
Thunder Bay
Dorian
(Birchland Tent & RV about 8 miles west of Nipigon)

Saturday, September 19th, 2009 (38.2 miles)

Birchland Tent & RV
Nipgon
Gravel River Motel (about 10 miles west of Rossport)

Sunday, September 20th, 2009 (87.2 miles)

Gravel River Motel
Pays Plat
Schreiber
Terrace Bay
Marathon (Marathon Campground…and mercury dump!)

Monday, September 21st, 2009 (60.1 miles)

Marathon
White River (Continental Motel with dad and Mathieu)

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 (77.8 miles)

White River
Wawa
(Rabbit Blanket Campground in Lake Superior Provincial Park)

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 (110.1 miles)

Rabbit Blanket
Heyden (Mountain Ash Motel with dad)

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 (40.0 miles)

Heyden
Sault Ste. Marie
(a few miles outside Sault Ste. Marie on Highway 17)

Friday, September 25th, 2009 (77.8 miles)

Roadside on Highway 17
Desbarats
Bruce Mines
Thessalon
Sowerby
Iron Bridge
Blind River
Algoma Mills
Spragge
(Serpent River Campground)

Saturday, September 26th, 2009 (92.7 miles)

Serpent River Campground
Serpent River
Cutler
Spanish
Walford
Massey
Webbwood
McKerow
Nairn Centre
Whitefish
Naughton
Coniston (empty lot outside Coniston)

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 (73.7 miles)

Coniston
Wahnapitae
Markstay
Hagar
Verner
Sturgeon Falls
North Bay (Northgate Inn)

Monday, September 28th, 2009 (39.2 miles, very challenging winds)

Northbay
Rutherglen
Mattawa (Voyageur Motel)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 (0.0 miles)

Mattawa

I’ve really struggled the past couple days to make mileage. A smidge over 70 miles each both Tuesday and Wednesday. Sitting at a touch over 60 miles today. It’s only 4pm, so I theoretically could bike another three hours and still have time to make camp and eat. That would put me minimally at 90 miles for the day…maybe more with any favorable conditions.

Favorable conditions are:

Strong legs.
Good wind.
Good pavement.
Moderate heat.

Over only one of those do I have any control. The wind, particularly, has not been working for me at all since I’ve been in Alberta or Saskatchewan, excluding Sunday, August 28th when I got a good tailwind out of Hinton to Cynthia, Alberta.

I’ve been eating a lot better on this trip than I did on my Atlanta to Alpine trek. But I’ve found that I need to focus on eating even better. It makes all the difference in the world. By the time I’m on the bike, energy bars, and bananas, and so on aren’t cutting it. It’s what I get in the meals which makes it work.

Here’s what I ate yesterday, more or less, and I feel like it was pretty effective as far as an eating day:

A veggie omelet
Brown toast and honey
Pan fries and ketchup
Coffee
Several bananas
Several blueberry granola bars
A walnut-maple ice cream cone
A half-liter of grapefruit juice
A handful of raisins
A half-liter of 2% milk
A half-liter of V-8 juice
A half-liter of orange juice
A handful of popcorn cabbage (brussel sprouts)
A pair of large carrots
A tin of sardines in mustard sauce
Several spoonfuls of peanut-butter
A package of ramen noodles
A bowl of rice and quinoa in chicken broth with several cloves of garlic
Lots of water

Largest Tomahawk in the World, Cut Knife, Saskatchewan

Consequently, I felt very strong this morning and had 30 miles in within the first two hours. Stopped for lunch at a diner in Cut Knife (home of the World’s Largest Tomahawk), and then slorged against the wind and the heat for the next thirty miles. I should really figure out how to travel at night.

Wait, no, enjoy the heat, Winter is coming.

And screw 90 miles today. I’ve got free internet access, on a reasonably fast computer, with no one waiting behind me (knock on wood), and no apparent time limit. Let’s see if I can catch up on some blog posting.