Went a total of 28 km on my Veloteq Challenger today.

For non-natives of Toronto, there is a map to follow my travels at:

http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/map/pdf/2007_map.pdf

You are allowed to be suitably jealous of Toronto's cycling infrastructure.

Started out at Yonge and Wellesley at 1000, went up Bay St. then along the Davenport Road bike path (Route 18) to Oakwood then up to St. Clair Ave. W. Went into the vacuum cleaner shop there and bought replacement vacuum cleaner bags.

Then I went east on St. Clair to Mount Pleasant, north to Moore, east to Bayview and then north on Bayview to Sunnybrook Hospital where I got drugs. Then south on Bayview to Rosedale Valley, west to Yonge and south to Wellesley. Finish time 1130. Total distance on first trip 20 km. Not a bad trip, except for some morons honking their horns on Rosedale Valley. The Davenport Road bike path had been well ploughed out. There were several other bicyclists on it. Since this route is generally uphill along the old Lake Iroquois bluffs, I passed a lot of bicycles, but traffic was generally light enough to do this. In some places, bicycle density required me to move into general traffic and take the lane.

Plugged in the ebike until my next trip at 1400. Went west on Wellesley, through the U of T campus and under Soldier's Tower to Hoskin. Went between the two rival Anglican seminaries glowering at each other across Hoskin and west on bike route #14 (Hoskin/Harbord) to Ossington. Then along the yellow line on the map to Dufferin Mall. Went shopping for various presents for next day's Christmas party with some of my relatives. Then I went back the same way with a more heavily laden ebike, arriving at 1630. Total distance on second trip 8 km. Needless to say, far more time was spent shopping than riding. Once again, with a few exceptions, the bike lane was well ploughed out.

This is a longer total distance that I usually go, but I had a few errands to run!