Wobbles

This morning Kate and I went out to ride the Mayor's Healthy Home Town Hike/Bike in downtown Louisville. This is an initative of the city to try and get more people out exercising. So, we got down to Waterfront park in Louisville around 9:50 for a 10:00 oclock start and there were already probably a few thousand people out to do the ride. The vast majority of these people do not ride regularly, so it was great to see them out, but it would also prove a nightmare trying to ride with them at times (more on that later).

We left the waterfront and rode back over to Indiana on the Second St. bridge, made a quick loop in Jeffersonville (basically 3 blocks) and then headed back over to Louisville and rode to Cherokee Park. Once in
the park, we chose to go the longer, hiller route around the park, before joining back up with the main route that made a circuit of the park before heading back downtown. After a while it did get spreadout but the first mile or two was rather sketchy at times, what with the fact that Kate and I got in with the group that included a lot of families with little kids, who from time to time made trying to stay upright a little difficult, oh, well, we did not crash nor did end up having to clean little kid guts out of our spokes so in the end it worked out fine.
There were all sorts of bikes out, as can by seen by the "penny farthing" that the guy in the picture is riding. good thing that he is wearing a helmet as it was quite common for people who fell from those bikes back when they were popular (mid-1800s) to not survive the crashes.

The first pictures is from before the start of the ride, and the third is taken over my shoulder as we are starting to climb the bridge. In the end, it turned out to be about a 30 mile ride, which was long enough for me cause it was getting pretty hot by the time we got home.