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Pete Anderson 🚲

@dairpo@ottawa.place

hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1

Just trying to get around. On y va! #OttBike #GatVelo #OttPoli

263 Followers

130 Following

33 Posts

Joined November 28, 2022

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Pronouns:

he/il

Languages:

English (mostly), français (quelquefois)

Location:

Algonquin Anishnaabe territory (Ottawa, Ont)

Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 2mo ago

A solid #OttBike adventure with the kids today: 🚲 On the KZM, enjoying the wide space. 🚲 Behind Parliament, finally open again! 🚲 Made them haul their bikes across the locks. 🏊❌ Considered swimming at East Wharf but some floating garbage turned them off it. 🚲 Alexandra Bridge! 🏊🏊🏊 Swam at the history museum docks, had a blast. 🚲 Biked along the north shore for a bit, crossed back (Chaudiere to the Zibi park pathway with the MUP bridge behind the war museum) 🌭 Had lunch at Remic Rapids, there was a band playing in the park beside the patio 🎵 🚲 Biked home along the Ottawa River Pathway. 20+ km on their little legs (plus a good amount of swimming). Super impressed.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

-No longer any path-spanning snow or ice patches (on the main/through path, some side paths do have them still). -Commute is faster and less stressful being away from drivers, despite being ~15% longer. #OttBike

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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#OttBike #OttRun Report -The Ottawa is rising. The New Orchard tunnel is flooded at the north end. I was on my little trucker and got wet feet, you might be ok on a normal adult sized bike. Detour up around to Richmond and then cross after the bridge and loop around if you want to avoid the water. -Dry all along the main MUPs west to at least the greenbelt trail turn off. -The detour around Watts Creek and Corkstown is a bit of a mess. Signage isn't clear but the road had no cars and that worked out. -Greenbelt trail is crossed by seasonal streams especially on the north end, but totally passable. -Rail trail west to Stittsville is fine. I hate the Kanata crossings but the city hates bikes so 🤷🏼‍♂️ That's as far as I went today. 50km round trip.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

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Ottawa River MUP Report: -Clear between New Orchard (and so effectively the War Museum) and Beachconers. It is #OttBike to ice cream season. -Britannia Park looked clear but I didn't go that far on my run. #OttBike #OttRun

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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Another update from my run: -Mud lake loop is 99.9% snow and ice free and only minimally muddy. I imagine other similarly wooded areas are in like conditions. -Not many turkeys, they seem to have moved to other parts of town. #OttBike #OttRun

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

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One note, the new underpass at Churchill was starting to flood yesterday afternoon. I *hate* that new active transportation infrastructure seems built to flood. I imagine the Cleary underpass, whenever it opens, will also have that issue.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@ottaross@mastodon.social You win! @Cassandra@ottawa.place https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/2026-05-05/canada/l-ancienne-juge-louise-arbour-sera-nommee-gouverneure-generale.php

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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Ottawa River MUP Report: -Flooding is mostly west of Relic Rapids, around the Carleton Ave underpass (which is not itself flooded). There is space to go around on the grass but it's a decent amount of trail underwater. -Minor flooding east of Remic, but it looked about as high this afternoon as this morning. A bit of space to go around, but it wasn't completely covering the MUP. #OttBike #OttRun

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 4mo ago

Ohhh new layout on the web version of the instance. This will take a little getting used to.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 4mo ago

Running the fly ball station at sportsball practice last night has really underscored, this morning, that most of my exercise is leg focused.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 4mo ago

I had to go out past Greenbank today. I took a mix of side streets and the Pinecrest Creek MUP there, and then up Holly Acres to Watson Creek/Ottawa River MUPs.

That last stretch, especially from Carling to the parkway was overflowing. Once I could get on the open for bikes parkway, there was space for everyone.

While I love having the space, I hate that the NCC is sticking to bike mornings again this year.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 7mo ago

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@WTL Slow down, yeah. The first step is also the hardest until the habit's formed (and there's no shame in needing to stop and then get back on later).

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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This was probably my most popular toot ever. The fediverse loves libraries!

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@shadowspar@ottawa.place I love the brand is "Generic" 😅

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

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@WTL@mastodon.social @Cassandra@ottawa.place And I mean the Ottawa River freshet isn't an annual event, right? 🙃

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

Ottawa River MUP Report:

-Mostly clear but with patches of snow and ice of various sizes from the New Orchard to Churchill underpasses.

-After Churchill, where the pathway goes into a more forested area, it looked all snow covered, but I didn't go that far.

#OttBike #OttRun

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 4mo ago

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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca @mWare@ottawa.place I only write it as one word when I make a typo, but I do it often enough Ive apparently trained my phone into thinking that it might be a real word.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 4mo ago

The kettle is never slower than when you're at the office and have a long meeting about to start and need coffee for it.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 7mo ago

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@Kaneda_runs @WTL I did crosscountry from elementary through high school (never competitively, though I made provincials as part of a team once!), so the "how to start" isn't my forte and I have those early lessons hammered in thoroughly enough to be intuitive. That said I've probably stopped running, and then restarted again, probably at least half a dozen of not a full dozen times in the intervening decades so the "getting back into it" is where I can help 😁 The advice is basically the same! Get out there, go slow, and find the pace where your brain does what it needs to to get you back out again. I usually hit that point around 3km in, then can go as long as I have time for.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

It's felt like Friday afternoon all week.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@casseagull@mstdn.social My boss introduced me to the term "podcasting a meeting" for this kind of thing, where you can turn your camera off, listen in, and multitask.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@auxonic@ottawa.place The city can't help but compete with oc Transpo on price 🫠

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@mWare@ottawa.place The China History podcast by Lazlo Montgomery is great. Over 300 episodes, and takes a story of the week approach (not chronological, though occasional multipart deep dives). If you understand French, Résistance from Radio-Canada is a short series that traces the life of a man born enslaved in the US South who escaped to Montreal. My kids LOVE Greeking Out from National Geographic.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

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Ottawa River MUP Report: -War Museum to New Orchard TWO snow patches. -One just west of Remic Rapids (you can go around it) -The other near the east entrance to the wooded patch just west of Island Park (go over it). #OttBike #OttRun

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 6mo ago

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@shadowspar Lol. But also when will Americans realize that they destroyed the relationship? We're looking elsewhere because they (effectively) told us to.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 22mo ago

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@johnefrancis @Auxonic They're not even going to get credit for it from conservative voters. It's like how they bought the pipeline then in the next election didn't return a single LPC MP from Alberta.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 24mo ago

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@Dvdham@mastodon.social We rode along the Parkway to kidical mass then back. Over 20km for the 7 year old (I was hauling the other two).

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 20mo ago

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@Auxonic@mastodon.social How do they not collapse into their giant hypocrisy.

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@mhoye@cosocial.ca That's a great bike. We had one until last fall when we out grew it. I hope yours finds a new family!

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 20mo ago

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@Auxonic@mastodon.social Dudes who are literally censoring people shouldn't be allowed to talk about "free speech."

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Pete Anderson 🚲 @dairpo@ottawa.place

· 5mo ago

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@shawngettler@mastodon.social The "cross at the lights" signs (maybe same spot?) instead of a bike/pedestrian triggered light. I bet everyone waits for a gap.

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