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Downtown murals ride

Saturday morning, Cheryl, Cindy, and I rode to W Sacramento, 4th & G Sts, to meet a group of people who will soon be living at Washington Commons Co-housing. They broke ground this month, today’s ride was a celebration of their achievement.

Thank you Anne Geraghty for requesting and organizing this ride.

An unexpected surprise: we were invited to peek inside a not-quite-open-yet street art museum on C St – a space in between.

Isabella gave us a great impromptu tour:

Anne took this picture of the whole group:

Huge thanks to Cindy and Cheryl for coming along on this ride. Their help was invaluable and made all of us safer.

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Project Ride Smart

The team on Monday: Deanna, Anna, Christy, Charlie, Gina.

A short video before the street ride. We worked with three 5th grade classes each day, Monday and Tuesday. Four classes on Wednesday.

Every blue group rider did a great job. If a coaching tip was shared, they listened.

By the third riding day, we were able to not only complete the designated route and go find some fun. Like riding around the outside edge of the skate park.

Following the red group back to campus on the Redbud Trail:

On Wednesday, I was in charge of the Slow Race – ride the length of a basketball court, the slowest person is the winner.

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Project Ride Smart

At Westlake Charter School. I came to help with the street rides on Thursday and Friday mornings. Lucky me, I was assigned the “Blue group.” Based on their bike handling skills from the blacktop drill days, these kids are very competent. And they were competent! Too much fun!

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Office Hours

The first in-person get together following the first Better on Bikes class. A very nice turnout. L-R: Avelina, Amy, Maria, Kerri, Sergio, Cheryl, Barbara, me. Cheryl and Barbara were in the BoB1 classes and have been riding for the past 11 months. Cheryl has ridden over 4800 miles!!

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Project Ride Smart

The last day with the final two 5th grade classes.

Two groups of great kids. One of the fun attributes of Project Ride Smart at Natomas Park Elementary is a parallel dirt trail with a narrow path, bumps, wet areas, a hill with a little mud. Students have the option to ride it, most choose to do it laughing and/or screaming all the way.

Charlie Heieck took this picture of the NPE team – Mellissa, Gina, me, Deanna, Sue:

This was too much fun not to do it again … as needed. I also like not working 🙂