The Summer Of John!

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TTOW!!!

Hello everybody!! Geez! I've been so caught up with work and with other personal things that I haven't posted on my blog for about 2 months now! I'm sorry about that!

I recently received a promotion at work! I am now a Design Lead and have my own team of web designers. I love it! It's awesome! Although things were a little rough at first and had to work an extra few hours per week... things started to settle down lately and the team has been a great success for the company so far! Excellent!

Summer is quickly approaching to our doorsteps. Summers are great and I am definitely looking forward to it. But I'm especially looking forward to this summer, this is gonna be my time. A time to get back into shape and have a very active lifestyle. I proclaim this: The Summer Of John! :)

I haven't had an active life style since high school, a time when I used to play basketball almost everyday. This year, I'm planning on doing plenty of biking on weekends, go to the gym 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) early in the morning and head to the office by bike twice a week ( Tuesday and Thursday ) if weather permits! I can't do it Matt! Not in the rain! I don't want to get sick! ;p

Speaking of bikes, I bought my new bicycle almost a month ago at a bike shop named V.B. Cycle in Montreal, near Plamandon Metro Station. I was looking for a bike good for my height and also not too expensive nor too cheap. I got myself a 21" Diamondback bike made for city and mountain biking for a relatively a good price.


I went to get my new bike on a Saturday morning. When I left the shop, I directly headed to Cote-des-neiges with a friend of mine. Afterwards we headed to Mount-Royal and stopped by to enjoy the scenery. I took a few snapshots of the city



Following that, we biked towards the city and then headed to a couple of parks. We went by park Jean-Mance and finally park Lafontaine. After doing all that biking, it was time to go home...I planned on using the metro to get home...but I said screw that, let's make this a memorable day, so I went home by bike and crossed the Jacques Cartier bridge! :)

The next morning, I was still pumped & energized surprisingly! So I geared myself up again and decided to go for another long ride! :)

I first cruised around the regional park of Longueuil. I noticed there's more and more condo's being there, man things have changed during the past 10 years. It's used to be a big forest, now it's all commercial buildings and condos.

Following that, I swung on the bridge and went riding on "la Route Verte" besides auto route 132 near "Port de Plaisance". The port of pleasure! :)




This following fellow was having "pleasure", he caught a big fish. It took almost 15 minutes to reel in that sucker! ;)

Anywho, I continued riding on "La route verte".............


...........but I made a wrong turn or something!?!? I ended up on a dead end!! Damn it! ;)

I stopped a couple of minutes and opened up my camera to take a few more snapshots of my surroundings.



I took a new way back to Longueuil and continued riding towards St-Bruno! I finished the day going near Mount St-Bruno and then stopped at my brother's house for a nice pop-in to say hello. It also gave me a chance to rest up a bit and refill on water :)

Pic heading towards Mount-St Bruno.

So there you have it! I had an active weekend when I got my new bike! But the last two weekends have been pretty grey and horrible! I haven't done much biking since then! :(

That might change this week, as the forecast is looking super duper sweet. A lot of sun in the mix along with warm temperatures! Summer is coming! ;)

In other news, I'll be redesigning my blog once again. I want to add more life to my blog site. The last one I did was interesting, but lacked that spunk and colors. In the meantime, I've switched my blog with this simple blogger template. My new template should make an appearance soon!

TTOW!

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