About Us

The Princess Promenade was created by fitness trainer Janae Noble to get women out of their cars and on to their bikes. It is a fun, inspiring event that gives women and girls a goal to train for, culminating in a parade of princesses along the beautifully scenic American River Parkway bike trail. It is held the first Sunday in October in Sacramento, CA. (See Training for fitness and bike skills classes).

But more than that, the Princess Promenade is an intervention. It's a program that helps reduce the most obvious and curable ailment to plague Americans; obesity. In this event you can "Be Your Own Cause" and cure what is a precursor to the major diseases of our time; heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Bicycling Magazine has listed the Princess Promenade as one of the Top Women's Rides in the country.

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How You Can Make A Difference

Women influence the lifestyle of most families. Women manage careers, do most of the short city trips required to get groceries, mail packages, shuttle children to appointments, and other operations required to run a household. You can make a difference by setting the stage for change in your own home. Every time you leave your car and use your bicycle to run an errand, you contribute to better health and improved air quality.

You also "automagically" get some exercise. (Wow, what a concept!). With your increased confidence using the bicycle for transportation, you can influence your children and get kids riding their bikes to school again. Boom, another huge problem tackled! Fewer cars on the road, more adults and kids riding their bikes, less stress, less childhood obesity, less onset diabetes; it's a snowball effect of good outcomes.

Princess Fitness Festival

Along with the Princess Promenade ride, we host the Princess Fitness Festival. Located at the ride start/finish, the Princess Fitness Festival gathers the area's best health providers, fitness instructors, group training organizations, sports & apparel suppliers and more. The Princess Fitness Festival is Sunday, October 3, 2010 at Discovery Park, 10-2pm. If you would like to be an exhibitor at the Princess Fitness Festival, please see the Sponsors page for more information.

View of the American River as seen on the Princess Promenade course.