Let me start by sharing some details about the “Ride and Reach retreat with Ryan Leech”, it is a project I am very passionate about. Guests will spend a week with me and the crew (Sylvain and Marsha) at Boreale Mountain Biking in Whitehorse, riding heavenly singletrack, receiving customized skill instruction and progression, practicing daily yoga, sleeping in luxury yurts, eating gourmet food, and chilling in the 24 hour light that Northern Canada provides at that time of year. And yup, riding singletrack at midnight along the Yukon River is part of the game plan (as is dialing in your wheelies). There are still a few spots available, so if you’d like to come and join me,
contact my friends at Boreale Mountain Biking for more details!
The hometown of Shimano Canada is Perterborough, ON, and they support a local Cops for Cancer team on a project called Pedal for Hope; they’re set to raise over a million bucks for cancer research! As a prize, I have agreed to present at the top fundraising schools during the first week of June. I have also agreed to shave my head if enough people donate to my fundraising page for this cause!
Here are some more details.
I am now sitting at a Quebecois hotel on route to the Maritimes (little slow in writing this!); if you want to see if I’ll be performing in your town for a public show,
check my schedule here.
For daily updates, thoughts, stories, and media, stay tuned to my new
Facebook Fan Page. If you join this May, you are entered to win a Norco Manifesto Frame, same as I ride!
So far, I got worked on an xc ride by the fastest couple in Kelowna, driven over 5000km’s, slept in the back of my truck canopy three times, stuck in snow storms twice, played my didgeridoo on the shores of Lake Superior, spilled full bottles of water on my lap while driving, developed elbow tendonitis while playing with my iPhone while driving (not proud of this), listened to numerous audio books, performed at the ‘greenest’ school in Canada, got stuck on a long and random gravel road by listening to my gps instructions, was harmonized by the grandeur of the rockies, and absorbed by the immense evening skies of the prairies. All this just a week in to the 2 ½ month long expedition from Coast to Coast to Coast!
