“Man, I’m going to need some help here,” I pleaded by my sixth beer of the day.
Now, fortunately all the beers I had were in small, sample-sized glasses so I wasn’t quite yet in a slurred-speech drunken stupor and falling out of my chair. Yet, I certainly could have used some help finishing the stuff. The problem was our group consisted solely of ultra-fit athletes who were as much as a “lightweight” when it came to beer-drinking as me. Continue reading »
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it seems like the bike-crazy town of Fort Collins has some sort of cycling event seemingly every weekend. This weekend was no exception, with the Colorado Cycling Festival being held Friday-Sunday. Kicking off the festivities was a Vintage Cruiser Ride through Old Town Fort Collins. Continue reading »
This morning I went on an impromptu mountain biking ride with Kimi along the Poudre River in Fort Collins. Now, I have run along the paved multi-use Poudre Recreation Trail many times, but was surprised that there was so much dirt singletrack between the trail and the river! Wending through verdant natural preserves with tall trees, we made our way over to Vern’s Place in Laporte, which had nice views of the mountains to the southwest. Continue reading »
You would think that with the unusual dumping of snow last month, this is not a good time for recreational cycling in Fort Collins. On the contrary, the snow just makes the colorful Northern Colorado landscape look even more interesting!
Indeed, it looked so nice outside that I took two hours in the middle of the day to go road biking. This time I took Canny out instead of her little sister Carrie, whom I had favored exclusively the last few months for commuting. In fact, this would be Canny’s first ride in three months since the hauntingly beautiful Wellington-Carter Lake 200 self-supported double century in September. Continue reading »
The 10th annual Providence Bridge Ride makes a good counterpart to Portland’s other signature event running that same weekend, Bite of Oregon. This is because both give something of a taste of Portland, if in only a fairly small way. During the Bite of Oregon, one could try out some of the local delicacies here (like scampi), but just as worth going to see was Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “inventor of rock ‘n’ roll” (my friends and I were unconvinced but we certainly enjoyed his show). Similarly, during the Bridge Ride one could ride over up to 10 of Portland’s main bridges and get some great views of the city, but just as worth going for was hanging out with friends and checking out all of the different bicycles. Continue reading »
