So on Sunday, I did my fifth Bike the Drive. The Bike the Drive is a bike ride along Lake Shore Drive every year on the Sunday before Memorial Day. The ride starts at 5:30 A.M., so my mom and I had to get up at about 4 to get down there on time. The whole ride is about 30 miles, but on the parts of Lake Shore Drive that we ride on, there are a lot of hills, so it really feels like 35 or 40 miles. This year, I did the ride in my best time of about 1 hour and 45 minutes. The ride itself is split up into three parts. The first leg is about 7.5 miles. It starts at Monroe, which is at 100 S. and it stretches all the way to the Museum of Science and Industry, which gets to about 5900 S. The second part of the ride is the hardest part. It is 15 miles. It starts at the Museum of Science and Industry (5900 S.) and stretches out until Bryn Mawr, which is at 5800 N. There are also a lot of hills on this part of the ride, which makes the stretch brutal at some parts. The final part of the ride is about another 7.5 miles. The part goes from Bryn Mawr back to Monroe, but right at the end of the ride, the riders have to get up the largest and lengthiest hill of the whole ride. The hill is not too steep, but it is steep enough where getting up the hill is a big challenge, but the other problem about the hill is that it stretches for about 3 city blocks, which is almost one half of a mile, and by the time you get to the top of the hill, you legs are burning. Luckily, the last few blocks of the ride are just going down the hill and once you get to the finish line, the feeling of completing the ride is amazing.
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AuthorHi. This is Ned. I am in 8th grade and these are my blogs. I will be updating them every week. Enjoy. Archives
May 2013
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