Great day(s) for riding

It was a great day for a ride, so Genevieve and I rode from Altona to Walhalla (via Gretna, Neche, & Leroy), and then back to Neubergthal. That's 110 ks. It took us 3 hours & 40 minutes. We averaged 30.02 kph.

The CMU Hot Pursuit Team did significantly better. They beat their projected time of 84 hours by about 15 hours, riding from White Rock, B.C. to Winnipeg in 65 hours, arriving at 2:01 AM this morning. The aid of a strong Westerly talewind from Calgary on down didn't hurt. They passed Arvid Loewen at Swift Current at about 4 AM yesterday morning. Arvid was expected in Winnipeg at about 1 PM this afternoon.

Wow! That's some riding!



July 20, 2010
Watched Tristan and Isolde with the kids. What are these kinds of movies? Histories? Can't be. Remakes? Not really, but that's closer. Revisions? More or less.

So here's what this film is: a significant diversion from the original story "Tristan & Isolde" that's about as "factual" as Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. That is, it's a story that we wish were real, but know better than to believe it. It's a legend. But what are the screenwriters doing when they disregard a whole whack-load of the source material, and re-conjure the story in some other way, all the while leaving the original title on it? Is this kind of like stealing the franchise? What if someone decides to rewrite say, the Gospel accounts of the trial and death of Christ and ... oh yeah ... Well that's it. THAT DOES IT! It's all fiction people! EVERYTHING you see in the movies. I don't care what they say about JFK! Or The Lord of the Rings! Or The Life Aquatic! IT's. ALL. FICTION.

There. Now that that's been cleared up ... How about them Jets?! 

Rode 54 k to Rosetown and back - Avg 31.43 kph. Wind 15 k NW.