2011 04 17 Tour Of The Fireflies With The Firefly Brigade

Event: 13th Tour of the Fireflies (ToF), an annually recurring 50 kilometer pedal-powered cycling ride across several key cities in Metro Manila promoting the use of bicycles (and other similar non-motorized transportation devices) as an alternative means of transportation that is cheap, efficient, environmentally sensible and good for the people's health. Other sister events were also held all throughout major cities across the Philippines. Awarding ceremonies to the best costumed bikers wearing earth-friendly themes culminated the program of activities. As always, the schedule of this yearly tour has been timed to be near the World's Earth Day event (April 22) - http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2011.

Route: from Tiendesitas, Pasig to CCP, Manila, and then back to Tiendesitas via straightforward paths traversing through Quiapo, Manila.

Ride distance: approximately 41 kilometers (see the very last pictures from the photo album below).

Schedule: 6:00 AM - program, 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM - ride proper, 12:00 PM onwards awarding ceremonies and raffles.

Number of participants in the peloton: approximately 15,000 as per organizers' post-ride announcements, comprising kids as young as 6 years old, grampas as old as 80 and lots of out-of-shape people :). If they can do it, so can we!

The following GPS track information has a few factual errors as the resulting GPX file got somewhat damaged due to device overheating near the end of the ride.

Map My Tracks link and specs: http://www.mapmytracks.com/explore/activity/activity-2011-04-16-225405

GPSed link and specs: http://gpsed.com/track/4511018931780763397

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