Fitness Starts Young, Bicycles

Yesterday when I was walking down the hill to Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh I swa this lovely sight.

Yes, it's so nice to see all those bicycles. It makes sense for the kids to store/park their bikes there, because the houses on that side of thee road, actually both sides, need to be accessed by a long flight of stairs. This way the kids can ride their bicycles without having to schlep them down the stairs, which can be dangerous besides annoying.

And then when I got down to the Shiloh Hakeduma tourist site I found a bicycle parked right under the sign which has a map.

And one of the featured attractions is a bicycle path.

Active Jerusalem- Is it Only in Israel?

I don't know for how many years this has been happening, but it's not new.  It looks like a sports summer camp is going on during school vacations in the large open plaza of the Jerusalem Municipality.

Last week it was basketball, and this week I saw all these bicycles, though I missed seeing them in action.

Does this type of activity happen in other cities, right in the center of the municipal office complex?

The New Eli - Shiloh Bicycle Path

When I was a teenager and younger I loved to ride my bicycle.  It's one of those things I haven't done for decades, but it's also one of the few things still popular, at least in this part of the world, Israel.  One of my sons finds cycling to be the most efficient and quickest commute to work.  The bonus is that it keeps him fit, and he has to be fit for his job.

Way back when, in the "old country," my friend Louise Rosenstein and I met up a couple of times in-between Bayside and Great Neck on Northern Blvd at the bicycle path near the Throgs Neck Bridge.  We'd cycle to the "end of Queens," then go into a store, buy a big container of ice cream, get some plastic spoons and then finish off the ice cream, sharing it until the very last drop.

Israeli cities, including Jerusalem, have bicycle paths which you can see on the sides of roads.  And even here in the Shiloh area there's a new bicycle path to tour Emek (the Valley of) Shiloh, Tel Shiloh to Eli.

When I was at Tel Shiloh on Rosh Chodesh we spotted a number of cyclists riding by.

Here's a video of it; hat tip: my husband.


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