Did you know there was a hidden gem along the Charles River, called the Blue Heron Bridge? For cyclists of all experience levels who live in the Greater Boston area, you must check out the Charles River Greenway, which begins at the McKenna playground in Waltham, MA. For our cycling group, we had John Innes leading the ride with co-biking leaders from the MIT PN2K team (Yaoming, Tian, Rudy, Ye, Dingfang). We were glad to welcome nine other cyclists in our group of 15. We are proud to host this bike ride for four new cyclists (meaning they don't have bikes and it's basically their first times riding in the city -- we are honored their first time riding was with PN2K!) We bought our four cyclists 24-hr day passes for Hubway; however, a word of caution: in a large group with new cyclists (or cyclists riding at different paces), we do not recommend depending on Hubway outside the main Hubway cities. We love that Hubway promotes biking for short distances, but having to undock and dock bikes before every 30-minutes ended (sometimes docks were all full, and we had to find another dock nearby) and having to take four detours away from our trip to undock/dock bikes was logistically challenging and stressful. Nonetheless, this was a great learning, teaching, and bonding experience. For us, it's all about getting more cyclists out there, even if it means some trial-and-error.
Here's a shot of our group at the Blue Heron Bridge. A beautiful ride on a gorgeous day! [PC: Yaoming, Dingfang]
