Pan Ohio Hope Ride

Last Friday morning I drove down to the Depot for a morning ride to Holmesville. There was a lot of activity in the parking lot and the pavillion…it looked like preparations for an organized cycling tour or run. I found out later that this was the American Cancer Society Pan Ohio Hope Ride from Cleveland to Cincinnati and Friday was their “Century Day”…100 miles from Wooster to Westerville.

I started my ride north. I hadn’t gone very far before I started meeting cyclists…a few small groups at first but then more and more. I stopped to take a few photographs. As one group went by, I heard one of the riders say, “There’s a buggy coming.” , I thought as a warning to the other cyclists. Then I realized that he was talking to me with the implicit meaning that I could get a picture of the buggy. He didn’t realize that we see buggies every day but never this many bicycles and riders…

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