• Distance 11.82 km
  • Time 00:40:10
  • Average Speed 17.66 kph
  • Average Pace 3:23 min/km

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July 03, 2008

Humber Trail Posted at 08:44 PM
  • Distance 49.46 km
  • Time 02:13:09
  • Average Speed 22.29 kph
  • Average Pace 2:41 min/km

Extended over to Logan again, with some additional backtracking because I forgot to do one of my stops :P

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Chuckles says,

D'oh, I completely forgot to tell my story..

So, I'm headed west on Eglinton toward the intersection with Black Creek Drive. It is a steep downhill that lasts for several hundred meters, and there isn't too much traffic. It is a 60km/h zone. I passed 45km/h, took the whole curb lane and continued to accelerate. Possibly around this time a bus passes me. No big deal, he's enough faster than me, and there is enough space for all of us, whatever..

Now the intersection is coming up fast. I'm going over 50km/h, maybe 100m to go before the stop line. It is a big suburban style intersection, Eglinton is three lanes in each direction, plus turn lanes, and Black Creek is two lanes with a centre median and turn lanes.

On the far side of the intersection, the bus that might have passed me is stopped for passengers. The bus stop looks a little crowded. There is probably a car in left hand turn lane of the opposite direction, and the light has been green for a while.

At this point I sense another bus behind me. So, I note my speed is 56km/h, the light is still green, and I'm getting pretty close to the intersection (about 50m from the "stop here" line).

Unbelievably, at this point it becomes clear that the new bus's driver has decided that he needs to pass me, even though he knows damn well he has to STOP at the far side of the intersection.

I hit the brakes, obviously. I'm going to be completely boxed in very soon; bus stopped in front of me, bus on my left planning to stop. Then I notice that the light is changing, and the bus is completely obstructing the view of any potential left turning traffic in the oncoming direction.

"What the fuck am I going to do now?", I think to myself. Drop back to be seen? Get up close and personal with the bus's bumper?

Well, I ended up staying close to the bus and moving over into the emptying sidewalk. Finally coming to a stop beside the bus's front door. He clearly thought it was all a little funny as I noted his bus's number.... I don't get it.
(route 32D, bus number 1586, sometime around 6pm)

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