Skating the Rideau Canal
Come along for the ride as I skate along the frozen Rideau Canal (AKA The World’s Largest Skating Rink)…
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Come along for the ride as I skate along the frozen Rideau Canal (AKA The World’s Largest Skating Rink)…
As part of Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations Red Bull sent their crew to Ottawa for the first time. They spent a month setting up a downhill ice-skating track on top of the Rideau Canal locks next to the Château Laurier hotel that was nothing short of an engineering wonder. Complete with jumps, bumps, twists, and turns, it looked like a frozen Coney Island roller coaster but instead of two metal rails running it’s length the iced track was painted into four positively suicidal skating lanes…
Leading up to the 2010 Olympics The Globe & Mail announced a sports-themed short story contest. This was my entry, which took 4th place.