Cyclist creates skeleton-shaped route for Halloween
A cyclist was not spooked by her latest Halloween-themed bike ride, drawing out the shape of a skeleton across a city.
Rebecca Laurel, from Leicester, finished the 69-mile (111km) cycle on Sunday in six hours.
The skeleton map was part of a series by the 25-year-old featuring various Halloween-related designs.
Ms Laurel's X post sharing a picture of the route was viewed more than 11,000 times.
Ms Laurel, who has cycled for more than 12 years and has taken part in various regional races in off-road and mountain bike competitions, said she had created other routes in the shapes of a pumpkin, ghost and a witch, before creating the skeleton.
She said: "There were two main north-to-south roads that I knew I wanted to use for the legs, and then it was just trying to scale everything up so that the head was north of the city centre.
"The start point was the top of the hips and that loop on Soar Valley Way, and then the end was the left hand."
Most 'challenging' part
To draw the skeleton, Ms Laurel cycled from the hips, down to the legs and through the spine to create the ribs, the right arm and the skull before completing her journey at the end of the left arm.
She started at Fosse Park and cycled through the city centre to Soar Valley Way to create the shape of the skeleton's hips before heading south to draw the legs and ending her ride in Braunstone.
One of the most challenging parts of the ride, Ms Laurel said, was cycling the same route multiple times to create the route.
"The end of the legs and each rib, you go one way and then turn around and go back the same way, which kind of slows the route down a lot," she said.
"It was a lot of the city centre, so it's slower and longer than a general ride."
Now she has her sights set on Christmas - and plans for a snowman-themed ride.
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