# Canada Day 157 km ride (Saturday the 29th maybe, watching weather)
**URL:** https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996
**Category:** Gravel
**Created:** [25 June 2024 14:10 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996 "2024-06-25T14:10:18Z")
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### Author:  [@KevRidesGravel](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/KevRidesGravel)
#### Post date: [25 June 2024 14:10 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/1 "2024-06-25T14:10:18Z")
Quick heads up: we’re watching the forecast to put on our regular Canada Day gravel, where we do the same number of kilometers as Canada’s age.
Our preference is for Saturday the 29th, but the forecast right now doesn’t look great for that day.
Stay tuned… Sunday or Monday are the backup dates.
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### Author:  [@Arlambert](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/Arlambert)
#### Post date: [25 June 2024 17:55 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/2 "2024-06-25T17:55:37Z")
Monday has a rare north wind predicted, so it might be a good time to break out the Randonneurs Gravel Grinder route:
> **[Escape the Grange](https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38109917)**
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> Formerly the "Gravel Grinder". A challenging and unforgiving 200km brevet that doesn't offer any additional forgiveness on it's 13.5 hour time limi... - 211.3 km, +1994 m. Bike ride in Township of Woolwich, Ontario
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### Author:  [@Thiago](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/Thiago)
#### Post date: [25 June 2024 18:35 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/3 "2024-06-25T18:35:04Z")
Yeah, we should totally do that route. Like, ~~60~~ 54 years from now!
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### Author:  [@Arlambert](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/Arlambert)
#### Post date: [25 June 2024 19:58 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/4 "2024-06-25T19:58:41Z")
Well, Canada wasn’t metric until after 1970, so if we do those first ~100 years as miles and then the last 57 years as kilometers it works out to right around 157 relevant distance units.
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### Author:  [@KevRidesGravel](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/KevRidesGravel)
#### Post date: [26 June 2024 14:40 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/5 "2024-06-26T14:40:12Z")
Leaning towards doing this on Sunday the 30th. Winds is either West or WNW. That stets up to maybe do something similar to last year, but I’ll keep it to 157 km. The concession there is to start at the Wilmot Rec Centre. That gives a bit more distance for exploring, and cuts out about 30 km of pavement from LHSS to the Rec Centre.
I think most of us really liked the winding gravel road leading along the river into St Mary’s, so definitely want to do that again. (137 road)
Then that keeps Monday open for @Arlambert 's idea of the Gravel Grinder route.
I didn’t get a shot along 137, but here’s one of the group last year:
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### Author:  [@JimDaley](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/JimDaley)
#### Post date: [26 June 2024 17:13 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/6 "2024-06-26T17:13:49Z")
One of the great mysteries of the universe how I ended up on the front of the peleton.
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### Author:  [@SteveSh](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/SteveSh)
#### Post date: [27 June 2024 12:28 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-157-km-ride-saturday-the-29th-maybe-watching-weather/6996/7 "2024-06-27T12:28:13Z")
You don’t happen to be an engineer, do you, Andrew? 😉