April Fools Fun Ride 2015 hosted by R.E.Load!

Last month, April 11th, 2015, R.E.Load hosted a city-wide scavenger hunt with bike related challenges! There were over 100 riders who preregistered and more who registered day of. I love these types of races and get really hyped on the idea of participating but I wasn't sure if I would be up to the challenge. Three months ago I had ACL repair surgery on my left knee and have been rehabbing it. I opted, this year, to manage a checkpoint so that I could still be part of the fun but not put myself in a dangerous position where I might let my competitive nature overtake my desire to allow my knee to heal. After brainstorming, discussing, and negotiating, Michael Daily, one of the organizers, gave me a checkpoint at Clark Park in West Philly a few blocks from my home. He said I would need a friend to help so after asking around Jed Gunn stepped up to assist. We also received a lot of help from Mike Allen, my neighbor who helped score riders, held the clipboard, and took a lot of the shots.

I was given the instructions that I could make the riders do any bike related task I wanted so Jed and I came up with the idea of having people ride children's bikes under a pole and over a log. We got to score everyone on a scale from 0 to 100 based on style, effort, enthusiasm, and execution.

Not everyone pictured was in the race. We had quite a few spectators who wanted to try the little obstacle course we set up, so we let them! A nice man with a clipboard asking people to register to vote was really into the activity. He came back through out the day to duck under the limbo stick and jump over a log that Jed and I had collected from the Belmont earlier that morning.

Huge thanks to Miss Taylor Kuyk-White for supplying the kid's bikes and stopping by early on!

If you would like a larger version of your photo, let me know and I'll make that happen! Feel free to post 'em on FB, crop me out, or otherwise do what you need to do.

Without further adieu, here is the photo dump from the RELoad alley cat after the jump!