{"id":4474,"date":"2009-10-28T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:30","slug":"la-course-des-mortes-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/10\/28\/la-course-des-mortes-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"La Course des Morts this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacingmontreal\/4054368806\/sizes\/l\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3236\/4054368806_ec649136f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual Course des Morts bike race is taking place once again this year on October 31st.\u00a0 As usual, it&#8217;s open to anyone who wants to race for a small entrance fee (I did it a couple years ago and I think it cost $20 which included a pretty nice t-shirt).\u00a0 It&#8217;s usually a pretty tough race but it&#8217;s a lot of fun and a great way to see parts of the city you might not otherwise get to.\u00a0 The race is a mix between a scavenger hunt and a normal working day for a courrier.\u00a0 You&#8217;re given a list of clues or specific locations for checkpoints, you make your own route and go from there.\u00a0 When I raced a couple years ago, my route took me from Old Montreal to the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetary to Parc LaFontaine as well as places I had never been such as Redpath Crecent and the Westmount lookout on the Mountain which was great for someone who had only lived in the city for a little over a year.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t finish, most people don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Just be prepared to be exhausted at the end.<\/p>\n<p>The meet-up is at 4h00 at 1297 chemin de la For\u00eat at the entrance to the cemetary.\u00a0 It&#8217;s reccommended that you take a bag of some sort and a lock.\u00a0 A pen will also come in very handy.\u00a0 For more information, visit the Belleville Cycle Co-op&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/bellevillecycle.com\/\">bellevillecycle.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Course des Morts bike race is taking place once again this year on October 31st.\u00a0 As usual, it&#8217;s open to anyone who wants to race for a small entrance fee (I did it a couple years ago and I think it cost $20 which included a pretty nice t-shirt).\u00a0 It&#8217;s usually a pretty<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/10\/28\/la-course-des-mortes-this-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;La Course des Morts this week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7828,11],"tags":[4464,6,125,302],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-events","tag-bellevillecycle-com","tag-cycling","tag-montreal","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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