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Made it to Spokes and Strings for training ride. Williamsburg to Rockaway. 55 miles. We start at 8:30.

Already been hooted at cos am wearing short running shorts.

Gonna be a good day.

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We left more like 9 am. All of us are stopped at the Coney Island Nathan's (the original) now. Further bulletins as we progress.

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Jacob Riis beach now. More later.

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Kissena Park in Queens now. Me and four others got a bit lost and wound up at JFK Airport, but the group is together now.

Would like feeling in left ring finger again.

Tan lines still grossly uneven despite applying sunscreen only to brown parts. Bah.

Be nice to get home soon.

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Hooooooooooome.

Broke off from main group w/on eof the other riders. went over Queensboro (59th St) Bridge. rode to Herald Square. bought LUSH marathon bar (bubble bath) & Wiccy Magic Muscles massage bar. gonna bathe. will then make dinner.

PHTTTHHHHBT.

And today's distances.

Leg 1: Home to Exchange Place. 0.72 miles.

Leg 2: WTC PATH to Strings & Spokes shop on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg: 3.65 miles.

Leg 3: From the shop to Driggs to Division Ave to Kent Ave to Williamsburg Street West to Flushing Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue to Grand Army Plaza to Prospect "AIEEE NO ONE MENTIONED THE FARMER'S MARKET" Park to the Park Circle to Coney Island "Not actually on Coney Island" Avenue to Caton Avenue to Davill "Ooops" Street to Davill "That's Better" Avenue to 12th Ave to 41st Street to 7th Ave to 69th St to the Shore Parkway Greenway to Cropsey Avenue to West 17th Street to Surf Avenue to West 5th Street to Neptune Avenue to Brigham Street to the Shore Parkway bike path to Flatbush Avenue to the Marine Parkway Bridge to 169th Street to Davis Road to Shore Road by Fort Tilden Beach: 24.5 miles. Also there was a stop at the original Nathan's in there somewhere but I did not get anything.

Leg 4: Shore ROad to Davis Road to 169th Street to the pedestrian path to Rockaway Beach Boulevard to B 108th St to the Shorefront Parkway to B 94th St to Beach Channel Drive to the Veterans' Memorial Bridge to Cross Bay Boulevard to more of Cross Bay Boulevard to JESUS GOD MAKE THIS ROAD STOP SOMEWHERE to 165th Avenue to 92nd Street to 157th Ave to 97th Street to 156th Ave to Cohancy to North Conduit Ave to Albert Road to Hawtree Road to Centreville Street to Rockaway Boulevard: 11.9 miles

Leg 5: From Rockaway Boulevard to "It says we're supposed to turn on Linden, but I don't see one", to "Wait, now we're supposed to be on 157th Street!", to "That says Nassau Parkway", to "Holy crap, that's the cargo terminal at JFK- SOMEBODY GET OUT A MAP": 1.1 miles

Leg 6: From "Okay, we're backtracking RIGHT NOW" to "Baisley. We need to go to Baisley" to "Right, now we turn left on Brewer" to "I think we turn left on Long Street" to "It turns into 157th, cool" to "Son of a- Linden and 157th! We're back on the turn sheet!": 2.38 miles

Leg 7: Linden and 157th to South ROad to 160th Street to 90th Ave to 161st Street to "Sod this, I'm walking" Hillside Avenue to 164th Street to Kissena Park: 6.6 miles

Leg 8: Kissena Park on Oak Ave to Parsons Blvd to Roosevelt "Wow, all these people in motor vehicles want us to totally die" Avenue to 114th Street to 34th Avenue to 81st "Those planes roaring overhead from so low you can count the nuts on the landing gear? That, my friends, is the sound of my childhood" Street to 24th Avenue to 82nd street to Ditmars "HI GRANDMA'S OLD APARTMENT BUILDING" Boulevard to 72nd Street to 21st Ave to 36th Street to 36th Ave to 21st Street to 38th: 9.7 miles

Leg 9: 38th to the Queensboro Bridge and over it to 60th St to Park Avenue to 47th St to 5th Avenue to 34th St to the LUSH store and thence the PATH station: 3.24 miles

Leg 10: Grove St PATH to home: 0.25 miles

Total distance: .72 + 3.65 + 24.5 + 11.9 + 1.1 + 2.38 + 6.6 + 9.7 + 3.24 +.25 = 64.04 miles.

BEAT DAT WID A STICK.