Meet McFly

 This afternoon, after my field trip to the Pittsburgh Food Bank, where me, and 16 other Supply Chain Management majors went for a tour as well as a few service hours. We spent the first 2.5 hours repackaging bulk cereal. Granola came in a HUGE bag, with 600 lbs in each. We took scoops and repackaged into 1-2 lb bags for redistribution to soup kitchens and food pantries so it can then make its way to the hungry people. (Hopefully there will be a few pictures of this to follow).

I'm over to the left of the bin, rockin' the black shirt & repackaging some granola cereal.

One of the biggest problems when there is a lack of affordable housing is that in order to keep a roof over their heads families spend a much higher percentage of their income on housing leaving their food, healthcare, education, miscellaneous, budgets lacking. Many of the people you'll find receiving food are not homeless, but rather those who after securing housing lack the money for food.

After the field trip it was off for a bike ride. So, cycling shorts, shoes, GREEN shirt (so I would have the luck of the Irish), helmet, all the standard stuff you would put on to ride a bike. The emphasis here being it was 70 degrees out, so shorts & a shirt was all I needed! :)

 Took the Birmingham bridge to the Southside River Trail (I think it's called).

Took care to make sure my camera actually had batteries this time...and snagged a few pictures along my ride. This was taken just down river from the 10th st. bridge. I then made my way back up river, past Hot Metal Bridge, and to Baldwin Boro, I took the trail until it ended and found Welcome to  Pittsburgh sign to take a picture with as well.

Probably my favorite part of the ride today, besides checking out some graffiti which I'm always a fan of, was this sticker on the sign in the picture from left, it says Pierogi Powered, and it's a BikePGH sticker. If it wasn't for their awesome free map outlining all the places, trail, road, bike paths, etc, to ride in Pittsburgh I never would have made it today. & of course, I LOVE me some Pierogis. :) *despite the fact that the word is spelled wrong on the sticker*

So, by the time I crossed the Hot Metal Bridge to the Jail trail (Eliza Furnace trail) I had found a name for my man. So...meet McFly. & of course, the man needed a middle name, & he came with a last (Giant, being the brand of bike). I present to you, loyal readers, McFly "Lil' Bit" Giant. Lil' Bit being for when I need just a little bit more to reach the host site, the top of the hill or the west coast.

After my 15 on the bike I ran 6, out of the 12 I planned for. What a poor idea...won't be doing that again any time soon.

15(.10) + 44 miles= 59 miles completed/ 500, 441 left to ride.