Evening Ride in Yoyogi Park

Time in motion: 1 hour 00 minutes 07 seconds

Average speed: 10.6 mph

Max speed: 27.7 mph

After I wasted 2 hours and 40 minutes on trains in a failed attempt to go skimboarding (due to rain starting en route), I returned home to Shinjuku a might pissed off. Somehow, it wasn’t raining in Shinjuku and showed no signs of having gotten any rain at all. So I uncovered my Trek 7.3 FX and took to the streets, post-haste. I took the route to Yoyogi Park I discovered on Sunday night’s ride. I found Yoyogi Park directly but there was a lot of traffic on the streets so getting there wasn’t that quick.

Once there I ambled about getting a feel for the place, passing the usual assortment of musicians, performers and idlers. Then I discovered a dedicated paved bike path, which I got very excited about until I found out the whole loop can be ridden in 5 minutes. Even taking the large paved road all the way around the park hardly takes 10 minutes. Yoyogi Park has always seemed huge to me, on foot. However, on wheels it seems but a wee patch of grass. Still, coasting through the trees of the park, listening to flutes, rock bands and brass instruments, seeing a group of people wielding high quality replica light sabers and various other things made it a pleasant way to de-stress from the day’s earlier illnesses.

Of course it started raining there too, so I made my way home and found myself on the street with two other semi-real cyclists, who were no match for me on the Trek. They did teach me a few tricks though about riding in the city, which I immediately employed. I’m learning the ways of riding in the city quickly.

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