Winnipeg Full Circle - Cycling Adventure!
Channel: Unchained Skid
Date: 23/03/2024

This is a cycling video to be used with an indoor stationary bike trainer or just for your viewing pleasure. This ride was done on the 17th of September 2023 and was part of my amazing expedition to Trois-Rivières, Quebec and East Uniacke, Nova Scotia; which on the way home stopped in Winnipeg.

There’s a story behind this ride.

Back in the day, I was working full-time and taking care of three young kids by myself in Winnipeg.  I love cycling, but between work and kids I could not get the opportunity to ride.  Each summer I would take a week off of work but keep the kids in daycare.  I would spend one day with each of my kids one on one, what I called ‘special days’, and then for the last two days of that week I would ride.  The ride I usually did was very close to the one depicted here.

For the rest of the time, I would ride on my stationary trainer.  I would download videos of folks doing bike rides around the world and watch them in my basement as I pedalled away.  I knew that one day I would get to travel and ride my bike in interesting places too.

That day arrived; and that’s how this channel started.  Now I’m the one making cycling videos from rides in interesting places to share with folks who are maybe stuck at home like I was.

It was surreal to find myself in Winnipeg again.  It seems that I came around full circle. 

Instead of describing the route in detail, I’m just going to put in time stamps from places along the route, and you can trace it out on a map as you see fit.

It was a beautiful fall day.   I hope you enjoy seeing where it all started.

(01:12) St. James Assiniboia Centennial Pool and Fitness Centre

(05:38) Entering Sturgeon Creek Park from Ness Avenue

(09:17) Grant’s Old Mill

(09:58) The T-Bird on Portage Avenue Going into Woodhaven

(12:58) Footbridge Across Sturgeon Creek off Assiniboine Avenue

(14:29) Moray Street Bridge

(17:50) Smithdale Park off of Vialoux Drive (Used to Toboggan There with the Kiddies)

(18:46) Entering Assiniboine Park from Vialoux Drive

(24:43) Exiting Assiniboine Park on Wellington Crescent

(28:13) Crossing Under the St. James Bridge

(35:16) Wellington to Academy Then Across the Maryland Twin Bridge

(39:33) Crossing Osbourne Street to the Provincial Legislature

(40:40) Down onto the River Walk

(43:58) Turning off Assiniboine Avenue onto Main Street (Bridge of the Old Forts)

(45:45) My Favourite Stop - The Norwood Bridge; A Place to Reflect

(52:02) St. Mary’s Road Looking out over the Red River

(56:36) The YMCA on Fermor Avenue just off of St. Mary’s Road

(59:14) The Path Under Dunkirk Drive

(1:03:24) The Elm Park Bridge off of Kingston Crescent, Another Place to Reflect

(1:06:58) Off Jubilee Avenue onto Pembina Highway

(1:12:07) Harrow Street Turning onto Corydon Avenue

(1:13:57) Wilton Street Turning onto Grosvenor Avenue

(1:19:38) The Tricky Little Easement to Get You from Grosvenor to Lockwood Street

(1:22:05) Off Tuxedo Avenue onto Nanton Boulevard 

(1:24:06) The Leaf Botanical Garden at Assiniboine Park

(1:26:19) The Pavilion at Assiniboine Park

(1:27:43) Geese Flying South over the Assiniboine River Park Bridge

(1:33:39) “The Blue Park” - Where the Kiddies Would Play when we Lived in Military Housing on Moorgate Street North of Ness Avenue

(1:34:46) The Bike Path Across the Approach to Runway 36 (You can see the approach lights to the left.)

(1:39:51) Bike Path to the North of the Living Prairie Museum Park

(1:44:20) Hamilton Avenue Bridge Across Sturgeon Creek

(1:48:24) Back at Home Sweet Van


Bike Hard!
 
- Skid


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