My longest ride so far was this morning (on the trike anyway—but back in 2013 when I was riding my regular bike a lot, on Saturday, June 8 I left at 5:50 a.m. and rode a round trip to Chelsea, for a 37.1-mile ride). I went out just past 7:00 and rode four consecutive round trips to Marsh Park, for a total of 33.5 miles in 3 hours and 35 minutes.
This is part of a plan to build up my stamina for a special ride I want to do next spring with friends who have done it before. The Five Boro Bike Tour is a 40-mile ride that is held the first Sunday in May each year (since 1977), where they close off the streets of New York City to traffic, and 32,000 riders transit the five boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island. My friends Eric and Mari Veenstra, who were part of our mission team to Haiti back in April, have done the Five Boro previously, and offered to take me out for it in 2016 (Sunday, May 1). So I've been gradually increasing my long rides—today was my first time of 4 round trips to Marsh Park, and my plan is to do five in September, which will be 41.5 miles and prove to me that I can do next spring's Five Boro Tour.
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