Yesterday was the 5 boro bike tour in NYC. It is 42 miles of traffic-free cycling. I did the ride last year and loved it. Yesterday however my group was in the back of the pack of around 33,000 cyclists and ended up walking for significant portions of the ride (through central park, up the 59th street bridge). The thought of waiting with all of these people for the ferry in staten island was too much, so we bailed and biked back home via the west side cycle path. Around a 30 mile ride, but so slow and with so much walking in between I don't feel like I did my usual long weekend ride at all!