S and I are a very lazy couple. As a result we are super unfit with our annual exercize limited to running 3.5 miles in the central park for the JP Morgan Challenge every June. So this year when we registered for the 42-mile 5-borough NYC bike tour, I was convinced we are not going to finish it. We had signed up more for fun to see how it goes. We didn't get any time to train somehow and we ended up biking for 2 days before the actual. So you can understand my complete shock when we actually did finish it...in 6 hours including all the rest stops and wait times. We woke up bright and early as the line-up for the tour was supposed to start at 6:30 am. We reached battery park at 7:30 am and though waking up that early on a sunday was a big pain, once there it was exciting to be a part of the big crowd. There was a buzz in the air! We finally started biking at 8:40 am and it was amazing to bike up an absolutely empty 6th avenue, to pass west 4th - an area we frequent often but unrecognizable without traffic at that hour. We had decided that we would stop before the queensborough bridge, however when we reached there neither of us was so tired and we trooped ahead. I think the next decision point came near the Brooklyn Bridge where we again stopped and mulled over if we should stop and go back, however, since the mile marker said only 10 miles left, we decided to finish it. I am not sure if this decision was a good one as it was the toughest 10 miles of the race.
The surprising part was that though we did it with minimal training, my legs didn't hurt as much the next day....maybe am in not such a bad shape after all...
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