On The Simcoe Scramble

This morning I rode from my front door on Woodbine south the short run to Lakeshore Blvd., across to Leslie and then from there North to Elgin Mills Road, where I met up with the Beaches Cycle Club. From Elgin Mills we rode together to the South Shore of Lake Simcoe and then back to Elgin Mills. I am sad to say I ran out of steam and hitched a ride home from there. I only covered 155 km, I could have gone the whole way, but I wanted to get home earlier because I was tired, in pain out of water and still had lots to do when I got home. But if, after I recover from my blood donation, there is another Simcoe Scramble I will dip my toes in Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe... probably Simcoe first, I don't want to have to wake up even earlier just to make a symbolic point!

Anyway I used Mapmyride.com, its a painfully slow website, but it does have support for the Garmin APIs which is handy, because I have a Garmin GPS... sorry can you tell I have an M.Eng? Basically Mapmyride.com has all the gory details from my bike computer, you can see it right here.
(Sorry if that link does not work, I am still learning how to use their website.)

Here is a screen capture of the map.
While on this ride someone made the observation, when going one direction the wind is in your face, yet when you turn around the wind is still in your face - which we all already knew, but this leads to a law of biker meteorology:

No matter which direction you go, the wind will always be a head wind, unless you are in a large peloton, in which case the wind is probably at your back.

A new law of physics for cyclists!

I have more to describe from the ride today, but I have too much still to do, if I still remember things tomorrow I'll post some of the more memorable events in this space tomorrow.