Two Cooks Cycling
Photo lost when the old site was hacked. (Our Cat-Eye reached 100 miles!) Newer posts will have photos.
We didn’t want to let the Jewish Calendar year 5772 pass us by without completing one of our new year’s resolutions — and so, we spent September 9th with thousands of other crazy New Yorkers, and two good friends, completing the New York City Century Bike Ride. We saw Central Park at 6am, stopped for hot dogs and cheese fries at Nathan’s on Coney Island, got lost somewhere in the Rockaways, pounded PBJs in Queens, relied on the kindness of strangers, and found ways to pay it forward. It was exhilarating.
While we did make the PBJs that we packed for our group, we don’t think they warrant a post (and trust you’ve all got that base covered!). But we did want to share a couple pics of the ride.
Neither of us were in perfect health at the time, but we pushed through and later realized that our surprising lack of butt and back pain might have actually had more to do with the advil and cold medicine we were hopped up on than our months of training. Regardless, we are proud of our feat and thought we’d share some of the photos. Indulge us?
3 photos lost when the old site was hacked. (Snapped by the NYC Century Papa Razzi; A is really as happy and relaxed as she looks here; Biking with the Manhattan skyline at our backs) Newer posts will have photos.
Thanks to our friends and family who encouraged us, to K and S who went with us, to A’s chiro for the advice, and to our butts for holding up!
7 comments from the first time around
Adrianne
That is so awesome!!! Thanks for sharing the photos! You guys are my heroes!
Amanda and Zach
Aaaaaaw, you are so nice to us!!
Val
Great photos! Thanks for sharing. You two are awesome! I could never do what you did!! And if i wasn’t in perfect health, that would have been my excuse not to do it. 😀
Amanda and Zach
The ride started at 6 am and when we got up we decided to start it with our friends to show symbolic support, but to bail around mile 10 and go right back to sleep. But we made it!
Adrianne
HAAA!! That is way too funny. So, if there was a thought bubble above Amanda’s head in those pictures, what she’s actually thinking is, “10 MILES, THEN BACK TO SLEEP!” I’ve had thoughts like that before. But then I usually just do go back to bed.
The B
A hundred miles without eating? Isn’t that a violation of the covenant of “eat first, think second”?? Do bikes come with “TV trays” that attach to the center cross bar?
Well, I hope you both enjoyed a good meal after the ride. If that was me – and looking at the smiles on your faces – I am sure the photographer was riding ahead of me with a plateful of shrimp carlina, lamb noisettes with artichoke sauce, chicken kiev and steak tartare in front of me, with, of course, a glass of 2001 Vina Ardanza Rioja Reserve (you have had it at Chez E&C) in the little backpack you wear on your backs. (Hmmm, can you let those pouches ‘breathe’ properly before consumption??)
As Rick Steeves always says, “keep on peddling!!”
You two are inspirations!
The B
Amanda and Zach
That would be one amazing bike ride! Speaking of Shrimp Carlina, we’re going to have to make it again and put it up here.
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