RTL in Christmas parade

Town crier Lloyd Smith and dancers from Mary’s Islanders admire the MUni and RTL banner brought to the Greenwood Mall Christmas parade. Cameras and videos were all over the place. Word is getting out about this event and folks in Nova Scotia are looking forward to watching this unique race. Notice how Edward [...]

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200km Stages of the race are now set

Annapolis Royal is designated the training and staging area for Ride The Lobster.
All four 200km Stages of Ride The Lobster have now been set. These Stages will soon be posted at www.ridethelobster.com but can be viewed now by linking to:
ANNAPOLIS STAGE 1
VALLEY-LIGHTHOUSE STAGE 2
TIME TRIALS STAGE 3 (Halifax-Dartmouth/ Truro)
GLOOSCAP-SUNRISE STAGE 4
CAPE BRETON [...]

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Nathan Hoover constructs route profiles

Using data collected from a Sony GPS data logger, Nathan Hoover of California, has reconstructed the route for four stages of the race. With further cleaning of the data he also managed to build a basic 3D terrain profile. He cannot wait to get his hands on the GPS data logged with the Garmin GPSmap [...]

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Saskatchewanian qualifies in moose country: rain, snow, day and night

Prince Albert’s Eric Pulvermacher:
I got to my campsite at Namekus Lake (Latitude (53° 49′ 60 N 106° 1′ 60 W) on the evening of Friday October 12th. I could tell by the lack of vehicle tracks that there has only been one other person out there since it snowed there the day [...]

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Montréaler Vince LeMay qualifies for Ride The Lobster

“I regularly ride a 36er, for almost 4 years now. For my RTL qualifying rides, the only thing I planned was to ride as much as I could along water. I live on an island after all!
Each of the two days, I ended up rolling around 90 km on beautiful cycling paths. The weather [...]

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