Join the seventh Annual Earth Day Market Ride THIS Saturday, April 21, and show your support for alternative transportation! Get a head start on your miles as well! The miles you ride count as your first commute trip on your mileage log. The Earth Day Market Ride is also a great opportunity to increase your confidence riding in traffic and meet other riders in your neighborhood.
Volunteer leaders will lead groups of cyclists from their neighborhoods to Heritage Park Fountain, arriving at 11 a.m. Meet your neighborhood Ride Leader at one of the meeting points below- riders will depart their meeting points approximately 15 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will cycle to the fountain (across from the Oyster House restaurant), following all rules of the road. After brief announcements, we proceed to the Olympia Farmers Market were you can register for the contest.
Ride into town, register for the BCC, meet old friends and new. Stick around for the festivities and enjoy the food and music at the Market!
2012 Meeting Points
Horizon Point Park, 5700 Balustrade Boulevard, lacey, 9:30. Leader: Terran Wheeling. Meet at picnic tables and depart about 9:50.
South Sound Center, flagpoles at Sleater-Kinney and the bike path, 10 a.m. Leaders Dane Clay and Yogi Fox. (Yogi will meet a group at Cutters Coffee at the Lacey Boulevard/Pacific Avenue roundabout at 9:30 a.m. for coffee before the ride, leaving there at 9:50 to join Dane at South Sound Center.)
Olympia High School at the bike racks on Carlyon Avenue side, Olympia, 10 a.m. Leader, Paul Brewster.
Roosevelt Elementary School, San Francisco Avenue NE, 10:15 a.m. Leader, Kris Fransen
The Evergreen State College, Red Square bus stop area, 10 a.m. Leader, Linda Weaver
Garfield Elementary School, Garfield Avenue and Plymouth Street NW, 10:15 a.m. Leaders, John Druelinger and Susan Lasiter.
The Earth Day Market Ride is sponsored by Intercity Transit. Wearing a helmet and signing a liability waiver are required.
For more information on this and other contest activities, visit our blog or contact dgreen@intercitytransit.com.