I just got home after putting 27 miles on my bicycle. Here’s the course if you wanna take a look. I had one little 5 minute break but other than that it was non-stop, two hours and twenty five minutes. My legs are sore but not as bad as I thought they’d be. I guess tomorrow morning will be the true test of soreness when I have to decide to bike commute or not.

The ride was in preparation for the New York City Century which is next Sunday. I haven’t done much riding other than the commute so I thought it’d be a good idea to shake my legs out a bit and see what they could do. I have to say they did surprisingly well which is very encouraging.

I’m gonna attempt 55 miles on the Century ride so I need all the encouragement I can get. There’s several rest stops on that route so I think I can manage it. My biggest concern is making it across the Tri-Borough Bridge near the end of the course. I’ve never been across that bridge on a bike so it’s an unknown. The good news is there’s a rest stop right before I have to cross it so that should definitely help.

In an odd way I’m kinda looking forward to the crossing the Tri-Borough because it’s the only major East River bridge that I haven’t been across. I’ve biked up to it from my neighborhood once but never across. I’ve done the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, and Queensborough Bridges many times. I guess if I make it across the Tri-Borough I’ll have to set my sights on the only Hudson River bridge at some point in the future, it’s the George Washington.

Oddities I spotted while on today’s ride. What appeared to be a marriage proposal on the Pulaski Bridge. The view from there is pretty nice but it crosses Newtown Creek, one of the most polluted waterways in the area so it seems an odd choice for a proposal. Still, that was much nicer than what the Queensborough Bridge had to offer. About one third of the way up the walk/bike path coming from Queens, I spotted broken glass and a not insignificant amount of blood. Yikes. The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful.

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