A Good Day for a Bike Ride

Taking advantage of the sun and an afternoon of spare time, I decided to go out and explore the farm lands around my house in Port Hope on my Bike. My parents have been here nearly two years and I always said I was going to do some biking so I plan to get that in this week before I move up to Kingston permanently on Sunday. Today was the perfect day for biking: the sun was shining, birds were singing, and there was a nice cool breeze. A combination of warm sun and cool breeze make for the best bike riding days, as you're warm but kept cool at the same time.

I decided to do a simple route, a square around the local area. Heading out of my subdivision and sliding along Marsh Rd, I enjoyed watching the farm fields being turned for the new season. I stopped at the rail crossing and watched a train pass and then continued up Dear Park Road over the 401 and through more farmland and onto highway 2. Highway 2 is quite hilly at that point but with relatively few cars it wasn't much of a challenge. I followed Highway 2 back to my subdivision. All and all it was a great day for a ride and a good replacement for time I would have spent on the treadmill. As well a good intro back into the kind of biking I enjoy doing on Wolfe Island in the summer. This summer I intend to conquer the longest bike trail on Wolfe as in the previous summers I did the short and mid-length one. The short one is only 18km, and the mid-length is 28km. However the large trail is over double at 58km. It makes the 11km route I took today seem kind of measly but as I said a good start to the season.

I do so enjoy biking.