I spend yesterday riding with these two: John Hinderliter and Brad Fisher. I’m claiming this as training for the June MS fundraiser, the Escape to the Lake, although, for me, every ride is training, by default.
John Hinderliter designed a terrific 45-is mile ride. I say “ish” because it involved a ride on the Tee from the Northside, back to South Park. Which, technically, isn’t bike riding. This was necessitated by the stop for burgers and beers on the North Shore. I eschewed the seafood section of their menu because it is titled “Bait”. But the burger was fine and the house IPA was damn tasty.
Our ride took us from the VIP parking lot in South Park, through the Park’s Sleepy Hollow valley, southeast, combining parts of the Montour Trail and some other rails trails through Glassport, McKeesport crossing the Monongahela River five times, the Allegheny twice and the Yough once. Our route offered a little bit of everything, single track, double track, rails trail, pavement, gravel riding along railroad tracks, embankment hike-a-biking. Beer.
The photo was taken under the Glenwood Bridge. The company and conversation were excellent, and, I learned all I wanted to know about Sludge and water treatment. Hilarity ensued. What a great time. All this in the name of raising funds to fight Multiple Sclerosis.
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