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Bike To Work Day

May 18, 2012 by Mary

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Today I biked to work for the first time since I’ve been in Memphis!

It also coincided with national bike to work day. Yesterday I got the flat tire on my bike fixed. So I started off this morning with a new tube, tires full of air, and a cute easy-to-ride bike.

 bike to work

Twenty minutes later I made it to work! It’s roughly 4 miles from my apartment to work and I got stopped at a bunch of stoplights. 

 

bike to work

Not too bad!

I’m lucky to live in a nice location that is close to roads that I can easily ride to work. There were bike lanes for part of the way and the rest of the way had super wide lanes perfect for a car and a bike. It felt relatively safe and easy as well. My only problem was a few slips on the trolley tracks… those things are annoying on a bike!

At lunch I walked over to the Bike To Work Day festivities at Court Square to pick up my swag bag and get lunch. 

bike to work

Since Fuel Food Truck was there again I stopped by and finally got some bison tacos.

 bike to work

tcos

Which were amazing. Seriously. If you live in Memphis track that truck down and get yourself some bison tacos. You are welcome.

Afterwards I looked through my bag from the Bike To Work Day thing (you got one if you registered through their website). You had a choice of a lunch box bag or a messenger bag and I chose lunch box. 

bike to work downtown memphis 

It was packed full of goodies:

 

bike to work downtown memphis

My favorite things: the koozie lunch box, a tire patch kit, and a bell. All things I actually wanted and/or needed! I can’t wait to put the bell on my bike.

bike to work downtown memphis

Downtown Memphis did an amazing job with this. I saw so many people with bikes Downtown and it really made me happy. With the awesome growth of cycling in Memphis I bet it will be even bigger and better next year!

The plan for me is to now bike to and from work whenever the weather forecast looks decent (no storms and such). Woohoo!

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: biking, daily life, Fitness, Memphis, work


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Comments

  1. Lielee says

    May 19, 2012 at 4:51 am

    How many tacos is that in the pic?

    • Mary says

      May 19, 2012 at 11:41 am

      2.

  2. Caity says

    May 19, 2012 at 8:02 am

    Wow that is so cool! Great job biking to work and that bag of goodies is amazing!

  3. Hanlie says

    May 19, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    What a great initiative! It sounds fun too.

  4. Sable@SquatLikeALady says

    May 19, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    I seriously had no idea Memphis was such a progressive city!!! I think there should be a national bike-to-work day.

  5. Carrie @ Season It Already! says

    May 19, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    Very cool! It’s so great to hear that they are doing these things!

  6. merri says

    May 21, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    fun. does bison taste like beef? we have bike to work day here in sf too but ive never seen any festival about it with free stuff like you have. but, maybe that’s just cuz i never noticed since i dont bike, hmm.

  7. Mary says

    May 21, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    Hi Merry, Mary. I lost you since you had not been to my site for a while. Come back if it works for you. I like you healthy life post. (Your button on my members lists does not connect to your blog, you may not know.) Hope to see you more. Merry, Mary

  8. George says

    May 23, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    I hope this kind of event spreads to other cities. What a success!

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