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Caledon Trailway – 38 k (East)
Sunday Oct 17, 2010 – Caledon Trailway East Read more…
Jack Darling Loop – 30ish km
Saturday Oct 16, 2010
Road Bikes from Drew’s House to Clarkson Go Station down to Waterfront Trail, over to Jack Darling Park, on to Port Credit and back via Mississauga Road.
Riders – Drew, Denise, Ange
I left my Garmin on and did not realize it until I went to get it right before the ride. It was dead. I put it on the charger before I left but there was no time to recharge.
Note to Self: Always check that Garmin is charged the night before a scheduled ride.
No Garmin data on this ride. It was about a 90 minute loop estimated at 28-30km. We’ll do the exact loop again and we’ll see how close our estimate is.
Nice weather, 10C and sunny
Everybody was dressed for the cooler weather. Everybody was comfortable except for Denise’s toes.
As is becoming usual, Denise crushed me on the ride back up Mississauga Road. Ange was comfortable keeping with her pace but I’ve got to keep training.
Echo Beach Loop 28km
I did a little research for a ride convenient to our cottage rental at Diamond “In the Ruff” in Muskoka.
Diamond “in the Ruff” is located at 1137 Old Parry Sound Road, Utterson, Ontario.
Diamond Cottages
Denise and I did this loop a few days earlier based on a map that was hanging in the cottage. Using the three finger scale method I estimated the ride to be 20km. In fact it ended up being 28km.
On a rainy Sunday morning August 22, 2o10 I rode this solo. I took a few pics along the way.
Country Side Along Route 24
Country road along Route 4
Brook along side Route 4
Rolling hills along Route 4
Everybody Loves Raymond ... Ontario
Learned a few things riding in the rain. First my Voyager bike bag is not waterproof … at all. I guess that’s why they provide a little rain cover. I put my iphone in the bag and when I stopped to snap a picture about an hour into the ride the phone was sitting in a puddle of water. The iphone is now dead but after some Google searches it seems there is a chance it might work again when it dries out. I’ll report on that later.
Second thing I learned was I’m going to invest in some gore-tex socks. My rain jacket kept me warm and comfortable. My bike shorts and legs were wet but warm and not uncomfortable. My shoes were SOAKED and the wet socks were rather uncomfortable.
From Wikipedia – Although Mark Gane was not aware of a real “Echo Beach” when he wrote the song in 1978, several people wrote to him asking if it was about a beach in their local area. However, Echo Beach, as mentioned in the song, does not refer to a real beach but is rather a symbolic notion of somewhere the narrator would rather be, somewhere ‘far away in time’. In reality, the song was created while Gane was working checking wallpaper for printing faults. He found the work rather dull and his mind drifted to times he would like to live over again. One such time was an evening spent at Sunnyside Beach on the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto in summer.
Echo Beach Loop
Echo Beach Loop Data
Hit 55km / hr on this ride. That’s the fastest I’ve been so far on the “Bad Boy”.
Humber River Trail Ride 29km
July 11, 2010. Drew, Scott and Mike. A good ride, more scenic than you would expect for riding through the core of the city. About 90% green and 10% connecting roads.
Humber River Trail Ride
Humber River Ride Data
Bike Waterfront Trail 28k
Sunday July 4, 2010 – Drew and Denise biking another section of the Waterfront Trail – Petro Canada to 4th line.
Waterfront Trail
Data for Waterfront Trail
Humber Bay Park West to Tommy Thompson Park 44km
This was one of my favorite rides this year. We took this ride on June 20, 2010. Riders were Denise, Scott, Mike and Drew. We met at the parking lot at Humber Bay Park West. It is easy access from QEW. There was a fee for parking. We rode along the waterfront on the bike path. Did a little street riding through Queens Quay and then out to Tommy Thompson park for a view back to the city. At 44km this set a record being my longest ride as of June 20, 2010.
Bike bridge in Tommy Thompson Park
View of Toronto from Tommy Thompson Park
Humber Bay West to Tommy Thompson Park
Data from Humber Bay to Tommy Thompson Park
Meadowvale Credit River Loop 31km
Sunday May 16, 2010 – 8 degrees C and sunny. Drew, Denise, Mike, Scott riding. Scott’s first ride on his new Cannondale Caffeine.
Meadovale Credit River Loop
Data for Meadowvale Credit River Loop
Credit River 22km
Sunday May 9, 2010. Drew, Mike and Scott. It was cold … 1 degree Celcius.
Credit River Loop
Data from Credit River Loop
Ride data here.
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