For about a decade, I've been targeting 500 km of cycling GTA streets and trails each month. When that became too easy, I realized 500 km was fine for our colder months, but from May through October, I should be biking twice as far. 1000 km became the new target.

My goal every month is to cycle 500 KM, but during warmer months, I aim for 1000 km. I'm pleased if I get in 10,000 KM of cycling GTA streets and trails. In 2022 I set a new personal best by biking 11,430.33 KM. The other day

I felt like going for a longer ride today, after-all it's a beautiful Saturday, so I made my way to Wilket Creek Recreational Trail. This route explores Edwards Garden and Sunnybrook Park and at this time of year the trees are exploding with gorgeous colours.

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Distance: 1,188.76 KM2nd most KMs cycled in the month of August (1226.37 KM in 2022)

Because I start all my rides in south Etobicoke, I don't get to Scarborough very often. It's nothing against Scarborough, it's just geography, man. A ride to Scarborough and back is a long one! Last year at this time, I took my first ride to the Scarborough Bluffs. The round

804.79 KM biked in March 2023, spread out over 53 rides. It's the fourth time I exceeded 800 KM during the month of March. My all-tome record for March is 907.27 KM cycled in March 2021.

Every KM I bike is outdoors on actual roads and trails. I like to get out there and explore the city, experience the elements, see what's shakin' in the T-Dot. I'll bike in freezing cold temps, snow storms, rain, wind and during heat waves. There is only one weather condition

Yesterday, I hit the Waterfront Trail for a bike ride. My destination was Ontario Place, and since I live in New Toronto, that meant riding over the Humber Bay Arch Bridge. On many a winter ride I've wondered to myself why the worst spots are the bridges. Quite simply, the

I've tracked every bike ride I've taken since 2012. In 2012 I got back on a bike for the first time in fifteen years. I only rode 212 KM that entire year, but I started building on that and by 2017 I had passed 10,000 KM in a calendar

For the first time in my almost five decades of life, I've biked over 11,000 KM in a single calendar year.

I've biked Toronto (and Mississauga!) streets quite a bit this past decade, but I had never biked more than 1000 KM a month for six months in a row until 2022. I hit five months in a row back in 2018, but never six. Until now! Through ten months I'm

50 years ago today, Foster Hewitt said the 5 biggest words in Canadian sports history. "Henderson has scored for Canada." Hearing that iconic call in my head this morning, I knew where I'd be biking this afternoon. I was to take a pilgrimage to the grave of Foster Hewitt. A

For years a favourite Toronto bike ride of mine was a ride along the waterfront trail to the Humber River Recreational Trail, then north to James Gardens, south to the St. Mark's Hill and then Annette Street to High Park and the park to the Martin Goodman Trail and back.

There's a cycling route I quite like where I take the Waterfront Trail east to the Humber Trail, the Humber Trail north to Eglinton, and Eglinton west to the trail alongside Etobicoke Creek. I love it. But just when you're enjoying the Etobicoke Creek Trail, it abruptly ends. You're spit

As a teenager,  I biked everywhere. I biked to high school, I biked to work, I biked to university, it was my preferred mode of transportation. For seven months of the year, at least. By Halloween, I'd park the bike and switch to public transit until April or May. Then,

In the past decade alone, I've biked 80,198.95 KM, and the vast majority of those KMs are in Toronto. And before apps recording every ride, I must have biked 5,000. Despite all this Toronto cycling, until today, I had never seen the Scarborough Bluffs. Today, after a

I closed out April 2022 with a great 42 km ride up Royal York and across Eglinton to West Deane Park. Then, noodling the streets of Etobicoke before picking something up off Burnhamthorpe just west of the 427. The weather was perfect. That put me at 948.07 km for

I've lived by Lake Ontario for seven springs now, and two things I know to be true. Midges are plentiful and when you bike (or run or walk) you're going to consume one or two dozenIt's cooler by the lakeIt's not unusual for me to leave my home wearing pants,

Yesterday afternoon, I went for one final bike ride of 2021. It was a nice 31 KM ride to the blood clinic and back. That made it 852.62 KM for the month of December (the most I've ever biked in a December!) and 10,647.40 KM for the