@jfmezei Yeah, you see a decent number of people with speed skates. This year and last year they've really upped the quality of the ice (or the weather has better cooperated) and it's been *really* nice to skate on, even with just normal skates. I feel like they have to have actively started doing something differently that has resulted in ice that's so much more smooth.

Did a cheeky little skate of the full length of the Rideau Canal tonight. Figured I'd get that done before the weather warms up again, *just in case*...

I kind of forgot how not lit a lot of sections are, and boy, the parts past the Bank Street bridge (towards Dows Lake) had some interesting bumps and dents. Those can be scary when it's not light out!

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