Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson may have the fashion sense of a junior college student in the 1970s, plus being British and all, he loves to make fun of us Yankee Doodle dandies. Yet, when it comes to automobiles, he is widely respected as an authority, a connoisseur, i.e. Someone Who Knows What He Is Talking About.
Most of the time, anyhow. For some reason, he has a habit of dissing my most beloved car marques. For example, when MG went bankrupt (again), he basically declared good riddance to a “stupid car.” Then, during the £1500 Top Gear Porsche Challenge, he gave James May a good ribbing about his white 944 that looked just like my old Turbo. Continue reading »
The Eldora Park 8k is part of the Fort Collins Running Club’s Tortoise & Hare Series, which (with its staggered starts according to runners’ respective speeds) is a “handicapped” race. Today’s race, however, was even more handicapped than usual. Continue reading »
I was in Denver for the second time this month. This time, however, it wasn’t to see airplanes, but rather… bicycles! Continue reading »
“The distance from my house to the Nebraska border is exactly 100 miles,” a Fort Collinser named Mike told me at the Jorge Torres presentation the other day. “If you go out-and-back, it would be 200…”
Nebraska? It sounded intriguing for my final long ride of the year, designed to be about 200 miles so as to continue a double century streak going back to 1996. Continue reading »
There were several reasons to head down to the new Runner’s Roost store by the new Super Target in south Fort Collins. First, it was to celebrate its grand opening (it actually moved from Drake Rd. to the new Front Range Village shopping complex off Harmony). My neighbor Tim wanted to go and several other runner friends were going to be there as well. Plus, Jorge Torres — a professional runner who represented the United States in the 10,000 meters — was going to make a presentation. What more could one ask for?
How about champagne and cookies! Continue reading »
