In 2008, Jim decided to participate in the
TD Bank Five Borough Bike Tour in New York City with a team from Sirius. The Tour is the country's largest recreational cycling event, and the 42-mile route takes its 30,000 riders through all five boroughs of the city, across five major bridges, and finally across New York Harbor on the Staten Island Ferry. We went into the city the day before, and stayed in lower Manhattan at a hotel directly across from Ground Zero (which none of us had ever seen before... quite an emotional experience). On the morning of the race (which started out unfortunately gloomy), Erin and I kissed Jim for good luck and watched as he rode off to join the throngs of people that were lining up for the race. We then had breakfast in the hotel and watched the group of riders grow from the windows, which you can see behind Erin in this picture. (You can click the picture to enlarge it.) The entire ride took Jim around 3 1/2 hours, and he came back tired but feeling like he'd really accomplished something incredible!
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