Toronto has a great system of bake paths that let you pass right
through downtown and out the other side. So I had breakfast near
Ontario Place on the lake, and cruised a bit of downtown.

The good thing about bike paths is that they keep you out of
traffic. The bad thing is that they can add up to twenty to thirty
percent on to the length of a trip. Today I decided to pay the
distance price because of the rain. It rained all day; sometimes
light and sometimes hard, but it never stopped. The few times the
bike route needed to use the road, the spray from the traffic was
terrible.

The other down side to bike paths is that they drop your average
speed as well, and that was especially true of the Waterfront Trail,
because it has many wooden bridges and sharp turns. The bike path
did pass right by the largest wind turbine in North America. It was
part of the Pickering Nuclear Power Station complex. It is amazing
that the wind was able to spin something that large.

Because of the rain and the slower bike oath, I was only able to
make sixty miles today. So far I have pedaled 2,976 miles and
climbed 108, 830 feet.

The rest of the group was a luckier with the weather today. Being
further south and west, the rain ended mid-day for them, and they
made it to Niagara Falls. They crossed the Rainbow Bridge are now in
Niagara, New York. They are planning a lay over day for tomorrow.