Hopefully NoRacer survived his trip, we are all at the edge of our seats waiting for his ride report.

James, a friend of his and myself took off for the DC fireworks. With tornado warnings they were getting everyone off the streets into shelters and we got stuck in the Jefferson Memorial for over and hour but when we came out the sun was shining and it was a great day for fireworks. At the mall we met up with more John Hopkins students The DC display was awesome and leaving by bike was so cool. They closed off a lot of roads and some were only open to pedestrians and cyclists. So we became a part of this parade of blinky lights heading off for the Capital Crescent Trail amongst standing still traffic. Dianne was our host that evening and she even offered some beer which was very welcomed after the day’s long ride (~70 miles.)

The next day we got off to a late start and had breakfast and it decided to rain while we were inside eating. And when we went in for lunch it rained again. So we missed getting wet on this trip but our bikes didn’t.

I will also mention that James is really new to biking, with a bike purchase just this year and his longest ride before this was 28 miles. Totally awesome and everyone had a lot of fun (sans the sore bums.)

Our ride:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...o-DC-Fireworks