38 mile, 1st annual Tour de Jefferson (Parish). We started at a State Park, rode by a National Park, ferry across (so it was a swamp tour boat) a shipping channel/bayou, to Lafitte, and back. Although for the return trip we rode the very high bridge over the shipping channel. Should I mention while the rest of y'all in North America are bundling up, we started in the upper 60's and finished in the mid 70's? Beautiful day for a bike ride through some of the more rural parts of Jefferson Parish. Sponsor was the Parish Chamber of Commerce - so there is hope for bike lanes in the area! The route officially had three "hills" - two bridges over shipping channels and we swear the on the return trip over one of the bridges, it got steeper.

Did my own bike awareness - after one gal complained to me about being sore in her neatherparts (she didn't know about padded shorts, and only looked in big box stores), I told her about TE. And some other gals, staffing an info booth for one of the other ride sponsors, asked about getting into biking in general - so I rattled off names of LBS until we found one that was in their neighborhood.

So now I'm home and totally wiped out. And Nala wants to go for a walk...