[Bent] 5-boro

[Lloyd Abrams]

Hi all,

I intend to ride as a front-line marshal once again. I missed it last 
year because I suffered a mild heart attack. The weather was crappy 
anyway, so I don't feel so bad.

The bummer is that they're not having the pre-ride for marshals this 
year -- city budget problems are the apparent culprit. As you 
probably know, we'd ride the whole 42+ miles the Sunday before, and 
this took place every year that I was a marshal. In fact, some people 
would ride the pre-ride and not bother to show up the subsequent 
Sunday. The pre-rides were almost the best part of doing the ride.

I'm rather glad that I had suffered the heart attack when I did, last 
April 16. If my coronary event had waited to occur and if I HAD gone 
on the pre-ride on April 26, which was an unseasonably warm (hot?) 
Sunday, then I fear what might have happened chugging up that first 
Central Park hill or the 59th St Bridge or the VZ.

I'm fine now, but with the crappy weather we've been having, I 
haven't been out all that much and find it a bit difficult getting my 
biker's legs back this year. In fact, I bonked leaving Long Beach 
going north, facing a very stiff head wind the first ride of the season.

Anyway, I hope to see yuz all on May 2.

-Lloyd 
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