Starting the day with words of encouragement from the Wees and Rob.
The route overview
We stopped for a quick photo op that almost caused us to miss a time cutoff due to a parade. Ride officials only let us go on without sagging past the parade as I promised we'd ride fast, and the five miles past the parade route were possibly speediest of the whole trip but we did it, we were riding every single mile we could.
But then a reflective moment for Ali before the final leg of our journey.
Riding to the finish in lower Manhattan was extremely challenging due to the UN meeting on Monday and many streets and avenues closed in addition to the regular vehicles in the bike lane, delivery people biking the wrong way, pedestrians stopped in the middle chatting or taking photos on their IPads, etcetera. Ali is more used to biking in the city so she went ahead and Mary guided me safely to the finish, which I will always be grateful.
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