Outdoors in Somerville, this weekend and beyond

[ron_newman]

Friday, September 19: East Somerville International Movie Night, 165 Broadway, behind the old fire station. Italian music and food at 7 pm, followed by Il Postino at 8 pm.

Saturday, September 20: Somerville Garden Club Plant Sale, 9am-1pm, Davis Square plaza across from the Somerville Theatre.

Saturday, September 20: The Urban Country Fair, 3-7 pm in Union Square plaza. Crafts, vendors, workshops, country dancing, and live music.

Saturday, September 20: Fairy Night at the Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Avenue, 4-6 pm. The Growing Center's calendar says: "play, sing and dance in the garden fairy land, build a fairy house, and be sure to bring a teacup to partake of fairy tea & wear your loveliest fairy wings." (I know nothing more about this event.)

Saturday and Sunday, September 20 and 21: Serbian Festival at St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Church, on Route 16 at the Cambridge-Somerville line. Satruday noon to 10 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm.

Upcoming:

• Let's Get Barackin' with Audrey Ryan and others, Thursday 9/25, 6-9pm, Community Growing Center
  
• The final East Somerville International Movie Night, Friday 9/26: Bollywood Night with Paheli (India)
  
• What the Fluff? Festival, Saturday 9/27, 4-7 pm, Union Square
  
• Local Roots Food and Music Festival, Saturday 9/27, 5-10 pm, Community Growing Center
  
• Harvest Fair, Saturday 10/4, 1-4 pm, Community Growing Center
  
• Honk! Festival, October 11-12, Davis Square
  
• Tour de Somerville: The Urban Edge Bike Ride, Saturday 10/18, 10 am, starts in Seven Hills Park
  
• Ghosts of Somerville, Saturday 10/18, 4 pm at Milk Row Cemetery
  
• Spirits of the Garden, Saturday 10/18, 3-5 pm, Community Growing Center
  
• AntiMorris Dance, Friday 10/31, 5 pm, Community Growing Center

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Around how fast does the Tour de Somerville go? Looks like it's about 15mi, which is more than I've done in one go so far and I'm wondering if I'd be able to keep up.

[ron_newman]

It's not going to be a fast ride. Don't worry about keeping up. We won't leave people behind.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

That's a bold statement -- you don't know how slow I am. :)

[ron_newman]

My recollection is that you are a physically fit person who sometimes runs in road races? I concur with ukelele below: you may want to have that bike looked at.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I did it years ago back when I was just starting to bike (I mean, literally, just learning; I never rode as a kid). It was fine.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Good to know, thanks.

I did ride as a kid but then didn't for a long time, and my current bike is a real PoS that has me going even slower than I would on a decent one, though would no doubt still be pretty slow.

Despite it being objectively easier, in some ways I find cycling for 30 minutes harder than running for the same time. I'm just not a fan, but I'm trying.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

This may say more about your bike than you -- it's amazing how much of a difference the bike, and even a tuneup, can make to how easy the ride is.

[ron_newman]

Did you come to yesterday's ride? There were over 90 riders, so I didn't get to meet everyone who participated.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

No. Glad it was a good group, though!