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First Rideau Canal Skate |
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First Rideau Canal SkateIt has been a very busy week, but I managed to squeeze an hour of time out tonight to inaugurate the Rideau Canal here in Ottawa. For those not in the know, the canal is the world’s longest skating rink (confirmed by Guinness) at 7.8 km (4.8 miles). It’s quite a good skate to go from one end to the other and back. I did nowhere near the full canal tonight… just a quick skate around Dow’s lake. The canal opened for skating today, and although it looks like it will be a good season, waiting until 8pm meant that I didn’t get optimal conditions as I’m sure it was very popular. There was a lot of scraped up snow and the ice surface needs to be flooded a few more times. Despite that, I got up to a good speed with only a few stumbles on hidden cracks in the ice. I was particularly pleased that it only took a few minutes to get to the canal. According to the inestimable Google Earth (doesn’t seem to be released, yet I seem to have a copy… weird) I am 363 metres from the canal, 720 metres along the road. There’s something fun about living 363 metres from a major tourist attraction… that is actually worth going to. So, who wants to go skating?
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