Blog /Dan & Stephen's Bike Trip of Fun and Pain

April 22, 2007 14:50 +0000  |  Cycling Friends Toronto 1

A map of our travels
A Google-map of our adventure. [High-res version] [Google link]

Toronto's weather these past few days has been amazing. With clear blue skies and 15°-25°C weather, the city was screaming for bike riders. Everywhere you looked, people were dusting off their old two-wheelers and partaking on a relaxing roll through the city... but not us. No, I called Stephen Saturday morning and said: "Lets ride to High Park!" and so I hopped on Syria and rode West to Spadina & Bloor, picked up Stephen and started our killer journey.

Now it should be mentioned that this sounds like a really big deal, but an experienced cyclist would probably fall over laughing at the way I'm describing this trip. I make no claims that this is an exceptional journey for everyone, but for an out of shape programmer, this was tough run. We rode out to High Park, back along Roncesvalles, down Dundas West until we ran out of working road (they're doing construction), to Spadina, down to Queen (NOT fun), down Queen to Church, up through the villiage to Wellesley, where we parted ways and I went to Pape & Bloor for Lukie's birthday party.

Along the way, we stopped for some tasty ethnic food in the Polish sector (Roncesvalles & Queen) and had some ill-conceived icecream in the villiage. Total trip distance: 26km. Total time spent: 6hours. ...and I hurt. I'm sitting on Stephen's couch right now blogging this and my feet STILL hurt. This must be how people who go to the gym feel :-)

Comments

Robin
22 Apr 2007, 3:29 p.m.  | 

It was amazing out yesterday. I didn't bike, but I did walk. I wasn't planning on it, but I started walking and just kept walking - for maybe 6 hours. Then I bought a dorky little scooter and rode around the "cool" parts of downtown. People laughed at me openly, but it was such a nice day out, I didn't care.

And if it makes you feel any better, my feet still hurt too. :)

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