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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 28: Accompanied by her support team and employees from the British Emabssy to the United States, Jane Tomlinson (5th-R), 42, of Leeds, Great Britain, rides her bicycle down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House August 28, 2006 in Washington, DC. Diagnosed with advanced metastatic breast cancer in 2000, Tomlinson was told she would only live six more months. Since then she has become the only person with incurable cancer to complete an Ironman race, three London Marathons, the New York City Marathon and three London Triathlons. She is working to finish a 4,214 miles (6780 kilometres) cross-country ride from San Francisco, California to New York City in 63 days. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)(credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — Friday marks Bike to Work Day, with 79 pit stops set up across the D.C. area offering refreshments and raffles.

The Commuter Connections and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association have established Bike to Work Day as a “a clean, fun, and healthy way to get to work.”

There will be nearly 80 Bike to Work Day pit stops in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Each pit stop will provide registered attendees with free t-shirts and chances to win bicycles and other prizes. Registration is free.

Note: Zoom in on the Google map provided by the organization and click on the bicyclist icon of your choice to bring up information about that pit stop, or look beneath the map for a listing by jurisdication of all pit stops and click on pit stop name.

The MARC Bike Car will be running on limited service on the MARC Penn and Brunswick lines, allowing a limited number of passengers to bring full-size bicycles on-board for their weekday commute. On the Penn Line, there will be one morning and one evening trip in each direction and on the Brunswick Line there will be one morning trip down from Brunswick and one evening trip back to Brunswick.

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