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Looking back on this increasingly distant trip, I can see I could've planned it better. Usually I don't get too detailed in making plans for trips, rather I'll just research what I want to see, make a list, and try to knock out as much as I can in no particular order. But I don't recall doing even that for my three days in Montréal; I just drove in after the Spartan and thought "OK, I'm here, now what?" This is probably why there isn't much else to read about here besides Olympic Stadium-area attractions and downtown bar hopping. What I did see was definitely worth it, though, and I think the last day was the most worthwhile.
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By this point, the two-day Spartan adventure at Owl's Head was finally done, and now I had three days of sightseeing in the city of Montréal ahead of me.
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My jaunt to Montréal was, like most trips back then, planned around an athletic event I was participating in, in this case a Spartan Super obstacle race. I would have to pay full price for this, but I also signed up to work as a volunteer the next day in order to get a free race later.
I felt like I was long overdue for a trip to anywhere in Canada, so I had to take this chance to go there. Up until this point, except for an hour or so riding in the back seat of my parents' minivan in Windsor, Ontario (across the border from Detroit, which we were visiting) when I was nine, I hadn't done any kind of traveling in Canada. It didn't seem right that I had seen so much of Europe, on the other side of an ocean, but had barely caught a glimpse of this massive country that bordered my own.
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Coronavirus is running rampant outside the walls of my apartment and I'm having to stay home from work for the next several days as they try to limit how many people are in one room at one time. All the gyms and swimming pools are closed, causing me to find different ways to keep in shape. In over three years, the longest I've gone without swimming was 10 days...and the Sindelfingen and Maichingen pools aren't reopening until the first of May! It also goes without saying that I'm not getting on a plane or intercity train anytime soon. Ski resorts have all shut down early, cutting my planned snowboard season a month short...Tomorrowland Winter was understandably cancelled, I didn't have a ticket to go anyway but it was still shocking news...right now I'm a little wary of registering for anything--music festival, obstacle race, marathon, whatever--happening before the end of summer. Small price to pay, though, for halting the spread of a pandemic.
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