My commute is about 10km each way, downhill in, uphill back. I use a mix of streets with dedicated bike shoulders, and regular roads with not much room for bikes but they're fast so I just get in there and go. I am moving house at the end of the month and will try a new route, down the Don Valley on the MUP almost the entire way to work, should be a nice change from the traffic.

The weather has been awesome this week. Coolish temps and warm sun. I like it better than the middle of summer for commuting, the sweat factor going into work is not as bad. Which is good because we have no shower or good change area at the office! I can't stand that, but that's the price you have to pay to enjoy your commute.

Odds and ends:
- I have not taken the subway once this month, woohoo! Was doing it out of sheer necessity with the snow we had in Toronto. No more elbows, delayed trains and cranky people
- I got my fall of the year out of the way (I hope) last week. Was swinging my leg over to dismount while moving, hit ice and went down on hands and knees onto my bike. Bent chainring with my knee, did not feel good!
- Flying down a narrow shoulder past gridlocked cars, while fun, still has it's hazards, as shown when I nearly ended up on the hood of a car going left through a gap across my path. Learning to slow it down a little around cars, you just never know.