Remember when I ran a half-marathon? It feels like a distant memory.
Sometimes, I look in the mirror and I have to convince myself that I’m the same person who ran 13.1 miles without stopping. The thought of running 3 miles is enough to make me want to throw my running shoes in the garbage. Clearly, my running career has not catapulted quite the way I imagined. And that is mostly because I am lazy and I don’t like running all that much – never have and probably never will. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that I’ve taken up biking again – an activity I used to love when I was younger and didn’t yet have a drivers license. When I was in college, I bought myself a beautiful electric blue Cannondale hybrid for what I thought was an exorbitant price of $500. I loved riding along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, which, I still believe is one of the best biking trails I have ever been on. So a couple of weeks ago, I brought the bike in for a tune-up, got some spanking new tires, and I was off.
One of the best things about biking is that it’s an activity The Boyfriend and I can do together. When I used to ask him if he wanted to go running with me, he would simply laugh – you know, the “what planet are you living on?” kind of laugh. As we switch off weekends between New York and D.C., we’ve been exploring bike trails in each city. This past Sunday, we rode north out of New York City, up through the Bronx and into Westchester. Here’s the map and corresponding pictures below:
Picture A: Overlooking the Hudson River at 70th Street
Picture B: The George Washington Bridge at 181st Street
Picture C: A lighthouse underneath the George Washington Bridge
Picture D: Overlooking the Hudson River as we cross over the Henry Hudson Bridge into the Bronx
Picture E: The South County Trail in Westchester County. I took this picture as I was riding downhill!
Nam Writes. 
Beautiful. I’m tempted to dust off my bike now.