Homeless in Vancouver: Stumbling upon a cycling race Mount Pleasant

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      As I was leaving the area of a cycling relay that was taking place around the area of Jonathan Rogers Park at 1:30 p.m. today (June 10) I heard an announcer declare that there was only 24 minutes of racing left.

      So I’m guessing that by now the race is over and a winner of some sort has been declared.

      I’m also left guessing about the outcome because, though I know that there is a Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix scheduled for July 12, I can find no website or reference online for the “Global Relay” (as it was branded) that took place today in East Vancouver along a street course including Columbia Street, Manitoba Street and 8th Avenue, among others.

      But happen it did.

      My bottles and I waiting on 7th Avenue at the intersection of Columbia Street at 12:47 p.m.
      Stanley Q. Woodvine

      It even got in the way of my biking a big trailer-full of returnable beverage containers to the bottle depot at Ontario Street and 7th Avenue—not that I actually minded.

      Among other things I’m a lifelong cyclist and it makes my heart race a bit faster to see a peloton of actual pro pedal-pushers whizzing around the streets of my city.

      Just before 1 p.m. a racer rounds the corner of Manitoba Street, heading west on 7th Avenue.
      Stanley Q. Woodvine
      Stanley Q. Woodvine is a homeless resident of Vancouver who has worked in the past as an illustrator, graphic designer, and writer. Follow Stanley on Twitter at @sqwabb. 

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