FOG Farewell

Thank you for 16 wonderful years of FOG cycling on the roads north of Winnipeg, Waking up in Brandon at 5:30am on a Saturday morning each month, driving east 245km along the TCH into a rising sun, cycling for 97km through Birds Hill Park - all fine and good: but the loss in alertness of my 72-year brain on the 3 hour drive home has become problematic.

My FOG memories will include the Crash of 03Sep2006 (when several of us visited the Selkirk Hospital ER), a chilly November ride with Jurgen (about 2009), touching a rear wheel and falling at full speed (ouch!), and that one silly flat (about 2014).

When I first joined the FOG in 2004, René and I were known for our spontaneous sprints (they brought in rules to stop that sort of foolishness).  Now I’m happy to just keep up with the “C” Group, and a Big Thank You to both Big Dave and Marcel for their willingness and efforts to ease me back into the peleton whenever I got dropped at ‘high’ speeds or ‘steep’ grades.

Hope to see you again at this year’s FOG AGM and breakfast!