Day 123- Placeholder

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May 022010
 

For the first time since I started my Project365, I don’t have pictures ready, but I think I have a pretty good excuse.  Here’s a rundown of what my Sunday looked like:

- Awake at 4:45am, throw on biking clothes, ride 1 mile to Long Island Rail Road station to catch 5:15 train to Penn Station in NY City
- Ride from Penn Station to Battery Park, wait in staging area for about an hour and a half
- 8:00am, begin 5 Boro Bike Tour
- 1:15pm, finish 5 Boro Bike Tour in Staten Island (yes, it took that long to cover ~40 miles. No, I didn’t ride that slow, there was a ton of congestion- I rode the first 10 miles in about the same time as it took me to ride the next 30 miles!!)
- Ferry from Staten Island back to Battery Park, ride bike back to Penn Station, train back to Long Island, shower and relax at my sisters for an hour or so.
- 4 hours drive home to Boston suburbs

Yeah, I’m pretty fuckin’ tired this evening.

If you really want to see some pics from my ride, go to my tweetphoto page for some pics I posted along the way from my phone.  I also had my DSLR with me and will post some more pics sometime Monday.

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Day 122- It’s a jungle out there! and Bike New York

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May 022010
 

And it was time to do something about it!

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Sunday morning I’m riding in the New York 5 Boro Bike Tour, which as the name implies will take me (and 30,000+ other riders!) along a 42 mile route through parts of Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

I completed this ride last year and blogged about it (with pictures!) here.  Last year the weather was cold and rainy all day and frankly I was really miserable for damn near the entire ride.  But the forecast for Sunday in New York City is for high temps in the 80′s and while there is a chance of a thunderstorm, that’s not until later in the day, when I’ll already be done with the ride.  Cross your fingers and hope the weather forecast is accurate for me!

I’ll have my iPhone with me, so if you’re interested in seeing pictures of the ride throughout the day, you can visit my Twitter page, or come back here and look at my updates on the sidebar over there on the left side of the screen (and if I remember, I’ll enable geotagging for my tweets).  I’ll also have my SLR in my backpack and hope to get some good shots with that, so expect to see more pictures from the ride on Monday.

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