Cycling in Central Park

I went cycling in Central Park today for 3 reasons –

1) It was a brilliant Sunday afternoon…sunny and warm (relatively) at 18C;

2) I got too lazy to do what I’d originally intended, which was to take the train 80 mins north to go see the art museum at Beacon;

and most importantly..

3) Ian scoffed at me because he didn’t think I could cycle an entire loop around Central Park without stopping to push my bike up the hilly bits on the east side.

As it turns out, I managed to prove Ian wrong.
Well, it was quite a pain riding uphill, and I was embarrassingly slow that runners whom I’d passed earlier caught up and went by..but still, I refused to get off my bike and persisted.

It was a pleasant excursion, it’d only been a month ago since I was last in Central Park and the trees were still somewhat bare. Summer is obviously around the corner because the trees were full of leaves and there was grass all over the ground, so much so that for awhile it was difficult for me to recognize the places that I’d always ran past. Interesting how plants grow so quickly.

I did my obligatory loop, then gave up in favour of a hotdog and reading my magazine in the sun. Need to work on that tan now that it’s swimsuit season.

From Random Photos

PS OK Ian, you can scoff at me for stopping after a mere 5 miles, but I win on the uphill one.