Sustainable Food, Sustainable Faith

Great article mentioning Hazon in The Huffington Post.

G-O-A-L!!!

Reached my minimum goal. Thanks to a donation from Melissa Gold (via Israel) that got me to $1001. I'm still fundraising; last year I clearly was able to raise a bit more.

This Wednesday I took a 'personal day' as I was going to hang with Simon later in the day and then head to a METS game with him. Biked 20 miles in the morning in Central Park. The atmosphere was totally different during a regular day. I love how Central Park takes on different energies on different days/times.

Hoping for another long ride Sunday--we'll see if the weather holds up.

Thanks again to everyone who supported me thus far!

Bike Poster

This is awesome! Check it out here.

Beer and Cycling? :-)

Went to Yeungling Brewery with my cousins, sibs and a few others this weekend! Was great. This bicycling jersey was in the store. THE LAST ONE! I had to talk about it here.

Sandy Hook Ride: Total 56 MILES!

What a day! 99 degrees didn't stop us. Naomi, Batsheva & I started by biking down to Penn Station and taking the train out to Hazlet station. Accessing the Henry Hudson Trail early was beautiful! I didn't know how beautiful it was -- hoping to do more of it in Monmouth County when I get a chance. Our whole route can been seen here. (The extra mileage was us veering a bit off-course exploring more of Sandy Hook and our to and from UWS to Penn Station mileage. The Sandy hook stretch was gorgeous--beautiful breezes and a lot of shaded spots. Luckily the LISCH house was mile 40! How crazy right!? Nice jump into the pool, snacks, and air conditioning. Thanks, Mom & Dad! Then we were off for the last three miles. We had to STAND the whole way back to NYC. The train was super crowded from holiday weekend shore goers and we later found out if the conductor saw us we would not have been allowed on! What a fabulous day! It was so nice to be doing a ride in the 'country' and our adventure was well worth it.

Thx to Jeremy - for my MLS parting gift Women's Jersey. Kept me cool and didn't absorb the suns rays :-) My new favorite biking top.

Thank you to everyone's support so far!

I biked to work today!

Today at 6am I went biking with a friend who is training for a triathalon. Go Bonnie! We did a Central Park loop and then I continued down to work! I have been meaning to do this for awhile and today was the perfect opportunity. I will admit there is something nice about getting yourself to work--with your own manpower & not having to deal with a crowded subway train. I was even pretty early to so after locking up my bike in a secure garage, I worked out in our gym. (Love work!) Looking forward to doing this commute more often.

Biking on the Wrong Side of the Road

So I just got back from a nice London/UK countryside/Bath vacation and I was able to get in some riduculously hard biking in with Joanna. We rented bikes from Country Lanes. We both did not think it would be so challenging. First of all can we discuss---the brakes are OPPOSITE in the UK! So that was a bit getting used to at first. Especially since most of the day consisted of going up-a-hill and down-a-hill! As you all know in England they drive on the opposite side of the road. Well that means the same goes for biking. Left turns end up being the easy turn! Joanna and I saw such stunning views. It was hard to concentrate on the road when you had such views to gaze at. Our trip consisted of visiting Beatrice Potter's home & gardens. Check out Peter Rabbit's little garden below! We also took a ferry over Windermere Lake (which is the largest natural lake in England) & back. The hills were steep and I definitely gave Joanna some tips I had learned during my Hazon ride last year. These hills were steeper and I feel 100% confident about my upcoming ride because of them.

Check out the standoff that I encountered below. I decided to take an extra ride along the Lake while Joanna waited at the Ferry. This herd of cattle went to take a drink in the Lake and on my ride back they had moved to the road. They would not let me through. My first stare-down for sure! I lost & had to walk around them.

Ok turnsheets--the British like to write paragraphs as directions. Now when you are biking it si very hard to read a paragraph & look where you are going. We never found our last big turnoff and ended up biking very much out of our way (Picturesque nonetheless)....But biking those hills again was not on our agenda-and our legs would ot be able to handle it. We called the venue, which we hired bikes from and they sent a very nice man who came to get us. And he played Madonna music all the way back :-)  Check out some of my photos below. The camera could not come close to how beautiful this day was.