Tour de NYC

This weekend a few of Joey's friends were in town and decided to take a bike ride up the Hudson.  The whole escapade ended up being about 18 miles round trip.  Less than 1/4 mile into it I crashed into the curb and flipped over my bike.  Lucky for me I ended up in a flower bed so I was saved by a very mulchey landing- not so luckily it was a rose bed so I did get a few scratches (see the war wound photo below).  Having gotten the inevitable fall over with, I completed the rest of the trip with (relatively) little incident.  Over all it was a beautiful ride and I am now seriously considering getting a bike sometime in the future so that I can make it a regular pass time.  This time I rented one at the 42nd Street Boardwalk.  I was originally nervous about the idea of riding a bike in the city, but all along the Hudson there is a nice wide bike path completely separate from the highway.  It is a beautiful trip along some of the nicest parks and skyline views of the city.  We went all the way up to the George Washington bridge (up the purple line on the map) and over into New Jersey (first time I've been there) and then rode back to Harlem for some barbeque (red star on the map) and then back down to 42nd Street.  We left the restaurant at a pretty fast pace to get the bikes back by their 7:45 due date before they turned back into pumpkins.  We clocked the last 5 miles in about 20 minutes.  Those of you who cycle out there probably laugh at that stat but for a non-cyclist with a full belly of bbq, that's not half bad.

View looking South towards Manhattan on the George Washington Bridge and the bridge itself

Joey looking pretty tired at the half way point on the bridge and my rosebush ravaged leg